Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal J. Ostler, Cheshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (28352 L. Cpl. J. Ostler, Ches. R.); 1914-15 Star (28352 Pte. J. Ostler, Ches. R.); British War and Victory Medals (28352 Pte. J. Ostler, Ches. R.), good very fine (4) £240-280

M.M. London Gazette 21 August 1917.

John Ostler was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, about 1882 and enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery in November 1914, when he stated that he had prior service in the West Riding Regiment. He subsequently transferred to the Cheshire Regiment and, having arrived in France in December 1915, was wounded while serving in the 13th Battalion on the Somme in August 1916. He was invalided home and treated at the War Hospital Dundee. Ostler rejoined his unit in France January 1917 and would appear to have been wounded for a second time that July, when he was admitted to No. 3 Canadian General Hospital in Boulogne. He was discharged in 1918 and awarded the Silver War Badge.