Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Four: Serjeant W. Hewlett, The Queen’s Regiment, late Somerset Light Infantry
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (4775 Corl., Somerset Lt. Infy.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4775 Serjt., Somerset L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (44275 Sjt., The Queen’s R.) first two with edge bruising and contact marks

Four: Private P. D. Hewlett, Royal Sussex Regiment
1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed, good fine and better (8) £180-220

Medals to father and son:

Medals to ‘W. Hewlett’ with South Africa Christmas Tin 1900 (empty) and a portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform wearing his two Boer War medals.

Medals to ‘P. D. Hewlett’ with slips (2) re the award of the 1939-45 Star, Africa Star and Defence Medal - these addressed to ‘P. D. Hewlett’, of the Royal Sussex Regiment, of 3 Westfield Road, Yeovil, Somerset; portrait photograph of the recipient in civilian dress; a framed wedding (?) photograph; books (2) - Paiforce, The official story of the Persia and Iraq Command 1941-1946, publ. 1948; and A Short History of the Royal Sussex Regiment 1701-1926, publ. 1941; and a booklet with map - Baghdad to Beirut 1944.