Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant William Clark, Royal Marine Light Infantry and St Andrew’s Ambulance Association, who served with the R.M. Battalion sent to Ireland during the Easter Rising and was later wounded in France

British War and Victory Medals (PO.1247-S- Sgt. W. Clark. R.M.L.I.); St Andrew’s Ambulance Association Long Service, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1929, unnamed; St Andrew’s Ambulance Corps Jubilee Medal 1904-54, unnamed; together with unnamed Voluntary Medical Services Medal with 5 long service bars, extremely fine (5) £80-120

William Clark was born at Gorbals, Glasgow, on 7 September 1889. He enlisted into the Royal Marines at Glasgow on 17 November 1915, being assigned to the Portsmouth Division, and placed in “D” Company. This company formed part of the Royal Marine Battalion sent to Queenstown on 26 April 1916 to assist in the quelling of the Easter Rising, returning home on 14 May 1916, as confirmed in his service record. He served in France with the 2nd R.M. Battalion and was wounded on 28 April 1917, by a gunshot wound in the right shoulder, during the capture of Gavrelle Windmill, 28-29 April 1917. Following recovery at home he returned to the 2nd Battalion in April 1918, was promoted to Sergeant on 31 August 1918, and returned to France in November 1918, where he remained until March 1919 and was demobilized on 11 April 1919. He served in the St Andrew’s Ambulance Corps at Kilmarnock Passenger Station from 1908-58. An accompanying letter from this organisation confirms his entitlement to the Voluntary Medical Services Medal with 5 long service bars which he should have exchanged for the Corps’ L.S. medal. Sold with copied record of service and other research.