Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant W. Lea, Military Mounted Police, late Imperial Yeomanry

Military Medal, G.V.R. (P-978 Pte. -A.Sjt.- W. Lea. M.M.P.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (25435 Tpr: W. Lea. 57th. Coy. Imp: Yeo.) unofficial rivets between State and date clasps; 1914-15 Star (P.978, L-Cpl. W. Lea, M.M.P.); British War Medal (P.978 A.Sjt. W. Lea. M.M.P.); Victory Medal, naming erased; Coronation 1911, County & Borough Police, unnamed, edge bruising to second, generally very fine and better (6) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to The Military Police.

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M.M. London Gazette 20 August 1919.

W. Lea served during the Boer War in the 57th (Buckinghamshire) Company 15th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry. He enlisted in the Military Mounted Police at Lancaster, and served during the Great War in France from 19 July 1915, during which he was awarded the Military Medal, before being transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve in April 1919.