Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Three: Second Lieutenant E. W. James, Machine Gun Corps, late Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (12457 Pte., Notts. & Derby. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (2 Lieut.) nearly extremely fine (3) £100-140

Ewart Walter James was born in Cheddar Somerset in 1897; he later moved to New Street, Little Eaton, Derby (with his parents Jesse and Rosina James). Serving with the 9th Battalion Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment he entered Gallipoli on 21 August 1915. Later transferred to the North Staffordshire Regiment. James was commissioned into the Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment on 30 May 1917 and was later transferred to Machine Gun Corps. As a Lieutenant he relinquished his commission in 1920. His m.i.c. shows his address as 8 Mount Street, Derby. During the Second World War he was recalled for service. As a Captain in the Indian Engineers, he died on 21 February 1946, aged 50 years, and was buried in the Gauhati War Cemetery. With copied research; M.I.D. not confirmed.