Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Signaller P. A. Gyles, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
British War and Victory Medals (B.X.11409 P. A. Gyles. Sig. R.N.V.R.) good very fine

1914-15 Star (10070 Pte. W. Dutton. Ches: R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Ply.13187 Pte. E. Hardcastle. R.M.L.I.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (18410 Pte. C. H. Norman. W. York. R.; 38651 Pte. A. J. Williams. K.S.L.I.; M2-136469 Pte. W. G. Kennedy. A.S.C.) the last with an attractive piece of ‘trench art’ in the form of a fashioned belt clasp, nearly very fine or better (7) £60-80

Percy Albert Gyles was born on 8 February 1900 and served with Bristol Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

Walter Dutton was born in Whitby, Cheshire, in 1892 and attested for the Cheshire Regiment on 7 August 1914. He served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 28 November 1914, before being evacuated to No. 2 General Hospital on 8 January 1915, suffering from frost bite. He subsequently served in Egypt, 20 October 1916 until 16 June 1918, before returning to France, where he was wounded by a gas shell on 24 July 1918. He transferred to the Special Reserve on 21 January 1919, and was demobilised on 6 August 1920.

Ernest Hardcastle served with the Royal Marine Light Infantry during the Great War, and was issued with a Silver War Badge in 1917.

Charles Henry Norman was born in 1879 and attested for the West Yorkshire Regiment on 27 February 1915. He served during the Great War with the 9th Battalion in the Balkan theatre of War from 26 October 1915, and was discharged on 10 June 1918 as no longer fit for active service (awarded Silver War Badge).

William Gilmore Kennedy served during the Great War with Mechanical Transport, Army Service Corps, in Egypt and the Balkans.