Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Police Constable J. W. Henderson, Caernarvonshire Constabulary, late Welsh Guards and Guards Machine Gun Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (1232 Pte. J. W. Henderson, Gds. M.G.R.); Jubilee 1935, privately engraved, ‘P.C. J. W. Henderson, Caernarvon Constabulary’, mounted as worn, the Great War medals polished, nearly very fine, the last rather better (3) £100-120

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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John William Henderson, who was born at Nantlle, near Caernarvon, in March 1891, joined the Caernarvonshire Constabulary in July 1914. Posted to Bangor in North Wales, he enlisted there in the Welsh Guards in November 1915 and was transferred to the Guards Machine Gun Regiment February 1917. Wounded in August of the latter year - by a ‘gas shell’ - he was discharged in March 1918.

Returning to his duties in the Caernarvonshire Constabulary, Henderson was appointed village constable at Llanberis in 1919 and likewise at Waenfawr in 1924. He remained similarly employed until transferring to his final posting - at Llanfairfechan - in 1936 and retired in August 1941. He died at Tan-y-Bryn, Nantlle, near Caernarvon, in February 1972, aged 81 years; sold with brief research.