Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914-15 Star (14944 Pte. J. Redding. S. Wales Bord:); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2684 Pte. D. T. Lloyd. Glam. Yeo.) spot of verdigris to first, good very fine (2) £60-80

Joseph Redding was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, and attested for the South Wales Borderers at Newport, Monmouthshire. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western front from 5 September 1915, and was killed in action in the trenches in the Somme by ‘a stray night bullet’ on 19 October 1915. On 30 October the Battalion sailed for the Balkans; casualties for their time on the Western Front amounted to 1 officer and 8 other ranks killed, and 8 other ranks wounded. Redding is buried in Assevillers New British Cemetery, France.

David Thomas Lloyd was born in Ystrad, Glamorganshire, and attested for the Glamorganshire Yeomanry at Pentre, Glamorganshire. He served during the Great War with both the Glamorganshire Yeomanry and the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 2 October 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.