Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Warrant Officer Class 2 W. J. Checkley, 3rd West Riding Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (785262 Sjt:- A.B.S. Mjr:- J. W. Checkley. R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (1208. Bmbr. J. W. Checkley. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (1208. W.O. Cl. 2. J. W. Checkley. R.A.) light contact marks, very fine (4) £340-380

M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919.

Joseph William Checkley was born in 1895, in Sheffield, and served with ‘C’ Battery, 150th (3rd West Riding Brigade), Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 April 1915, being awarded the M.M. in 1919. He died in Sheffield in 1951. His brother, Willie Checkley, served with 1st/8th Middlesex Regiment and was killed in action in France on 24 August 1918, aged 19.