Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant-Drummer W. J. Stevens, Lincolnshire Regiment

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3787 Dr. W. Stevens. 1/Lin: R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (3787 A.W.O. Cl.1. W. J. Stevens. Linc. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. 1st issue (3787 Sjt-Dmr: W. J. Stevens. Linc: Regt.) rank officially corrected; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (3787 Dr. W. Stevens 1st. Linc. R.) contemporary Regimental engraved naming, light contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (4) £360-420

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

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William John Stevens attested for the Lincolnshire Regiment on 26 December 1893, and by the outbreak of the Great War had completed 21 years’ service, of which 18 had been spent in either India or one of the other colonies. He served during the Great War as a Sergeant-Drummer with the 1st Battalion in France from 13 August 1914 (also entitled to a 1914 Star with clasp and Victory Medal), and was killed in action on the Western Front on 27 April 1915, and is buried in Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Belgium.

Sold with various photographic images of the recipient, and a Lincolnshire Regiment brass button.