Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Company Sergeant-Major G. B. Jones, South Wales Borderers

1914-15 Star (812 Sjt. G. B. Jones, S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (812 A.W.O. Cl. 2 G. B. Jones, S. Wales Bord.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (200074 Sjt. (A.C.S. Mjr.) G. B. Jones, S. Wales Bord.), good very fine (4) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Jones was a pre-war N.C.O. in the 1st Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers (Territorials), as a consequence of which he first entered the Aden theatre of war in late 1914.

Sold with original Record Office forwarding letters for his 1914-15 Star and T.F.E.M., both dated in August 1920, the latter addressed to the recipient at The Hospital, Talgarth, Breconshire; together with an interesting selection of Great War photographs (23), including scenes from Aden, some of them picture postcards with messages to the recipient’s children.