Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: 2nd Lieutenant W. S. Sarney, East Surrey Regiment, late 6th Dragoon Guards and Dorsetshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Paardeberg, Relief of Kimberley, Johannesburg, Rhodesia, Transvaal (No. 3776 Private W. Sarney 6th Dragoon Guards), neatly renamed; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (No. 32242 Coy. Sergeant-Major W. S. Sarney), neatly renamed; 1914-15 Star (6760 Q.M. Sjt. W. S. Sarney, Dorset. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (2 Lieut. W. S. Sarney); Delhi Durbar 1911, privately engraved naming, ‘8249 Cpl. W. S. Sarney, Madras V. Guards’; Belgium, Military Decoration, Leopold II, gilt, with distinguished service riband, mounted as worn, contained in an old A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd. case, polished overall, thus fine or better (7) £250-300

William Samuel Sarney, who originally arrived in France on 13 July 1915, as a Quarter-Master Sergeant in the 6th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, was subsequently commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment in August 1917.