Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (87 W. E. E. McKinley, Ryls.), good very fine and scarce £120-160

William Edward Eric Mckinley, son of Albert Wiseman Mckinley and Mary Constance McKinley, was born at Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5 November 1890. At the time of William's birth, his father was employed as a boilermaker with the North Western Railway at Saharanpur Station, one of the company’s major service centres with adjoining marshalling sheds, and which around flourished a large ‘Railway Community.’ Like his father - and other family members before him - William also joined the North Western Railways. By 1926, he is recorded as being resident in Lahore, Punjab, India, where he was employed in the company’s Mechanical Engineering Department; on 8 February 1926, William married Mary Millicent Webster, at Sialkot, Punjab, India.