Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Driver E. Webster, Royal Field Artillery

1914 Star, with copy clasp (96704 Dvr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (96704 Dvr., R.A.) good very fine and better (lot) £100-140

Ernest Webster was born in 1888, employed as a Coachman he enlisted into the Yorkshire Hussars on 1 April 1906 and was discharged on 1 April 1908. As a Driver with the 45th Brigade R.F.A., he entered France on 6 November 1914. Driver Webster was transferred to the Army Reserve at the request of the Ministry of Munitions, March 1917, for employment with Messrs. Dorman Long & Co. Ltd., Middlesborough. He obtained his final discharge on 14 December 1918. He applied for his 1914 Star in October 1919 - at the time he was living at 32 Oswald Terrace, Middlesborough.


With Princess Mary’s Christmas Tin 1914 (empty); ‘bullet’ pencil; cap badge; damaged medal card box of issue; Imperial Yeomanry discharge certificate; certificate Z; certificate of discharge; Army Reserve Munitions Workers document, 5 April 1917; photographs (12) mainly military; Borough of Scarborough driver’s licence; character letter, 27 June 1917; Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. letter of recommendation 17 May 1923; envelope addressed to ‘Driver Webster, 96704 5th Battery, 8th Division, R.F.A., Expd. Force France’; and other papers. With copied m.i.c. - clasp to Star not confirmed.