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A Great War M.M. group of four to Corporal F. Joseph, Royal Engineers
Military Medal, G.V.R. (6701 2 Cpl., F. Josephs, No. 3 Rly. Coy. R. Ang. R.E.-S.R.); 1914-15 Star (6701 Spr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (6701 A. Cpl., R.E.)
Three: Sapper T. W. Joseph, Royal Engineers
1914-15 Star (6777 Spr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (6777 Spr., R.E.)
Pair: Private E. Joseph, Welsh Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (202717 Pte., Welsh R.)
Four: Private O. Williams, Royal Naval Reserve and Australian Imperial Forces
1914-15 Star (2434 Pte., 21 Bn. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (2434 Pte., 21 Bn. A.I.F.); Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (D1684 Sean. 1 Cl., R.N.R.)
British War Medal 1914-20 (Owen Jones)
Pair: attributed to Mrs Jones, née Joseph
Order of St. John, Serving Sister, silver and enamel; Defence Medal, mounted as worn, together with two enamelled badges and riband bar, good very fine and better (18) £280-340
Corporal Fred Joseph, No. 3 Railway Company, Royal Anglesey, Royal Engineers. M.M. London Gazette 22.1.1917. Sold with Certificate of Transfer to Reserve on Demobilization, dated 11.3.1919.
Sapper T. W. Joseph first entered the French theatre of war on 7.3.1915.
Sapper Owen Williams, 6th Field Coy. Engineers, A.I.F., was born in Holyhead, Anglesey and was a cousin to the ‘Josephs’, was wounded (gunshot to thigh and buttock) in action on 27.7.1916. He died of Bronchial Pneumonia on 20.11.1918 and was buried at Abbeville. Sold with copied service papers.
Owen Jones, a cousin of the ‘Josephs’, served with the Merchant Navy and Trinity House.
Mrs Jones, née Joseph, was sister to the above.
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