Auction Catalogue

10 & 11 May 2017

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 19

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10 May 2017

Hammer Price:
£1,500

Family Group:

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain F. Way, Army Service Corps
Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, with case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (6747 S:S:Major F. Way, A.S.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (1st. Cl: S.S.Major. F. Way. A.S.C.); 1914 Star (Hon: Lieut: & Q.M. F. Way. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Q.M. & Capt. F. Way.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (6747 1st. Cl: S. Serjt: Maj: F. Way. A.S.C.) contact marks to the Boer War awards and L.S. & G.C., these very fine, the four Great War awards nearly extremely fine

A post-War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Chief Motor Mechanic A. G. Way, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, with Royal Mint case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (M.B. 2451. A. G. Way. M.M. R.N.V.R.); Defence Medal, good very fine (11)
£1400-1800

M.C. London Gazette 14 January 1916.

M.I.D.
London Gazette 1 January 1916.

Francis Joseph Way was born at Wimbledon, Surrey, on 2 May 1868, and attested for the Commissariat and Transport Corps on 11 March 1886, having previously served for 3 months in the Medical Staff Corps. Promoted Corporal on 1 September 1889, he was advanced to Company Sergeant Major on 14 January 1898, and served with the Army Service Corps in South Africa during the Boer War from 6 October 1899 until 14 September 1902. Advanced to 1st Staff Sergeant Major on 7 July 1906, he was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal before being commissioned Lieutenant and Quarter Master on 29 January 1910.
On the outbreak of the Great War he was posted to 1st Base Motor Transport Depot, Army Service Corps, and served with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 12 August 1914. Mentioned in Field Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch, and awarded the Military Cross, he was promoted Captain on 1 July 1917, before returning home, suffering from the effects of War Service, and dying in hospital at Aldershot on 25 October 1918. He is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery, Hampshire.

Sold together with the recipient’s pre-Great War related miniature awards; two Army Service Corps cap badges and A.S.C. unit insignia; two postcard photographs of the recipient; and an attractive silver cigarette box, 105mm x 75mm x 40mm, with wooden inlay, the lid engraved with a depiction of Joan of Arc, the inside inscribed ‘To Capt. & Q.M. F. Way. M.C. A.S.C. In Memory of Four Unforgettable Years Together. From his C.O. and Friend, Lt. Col. F. Purcell Barnes Sept. 1918.’

M.B.E.
London Gazette 7 June 1951.

Alfred George Way, the son of Captain Francis Way and his wife Lucy, was born on 14 September 1897, and joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 9 April 1918, serving as a Motor Mechanic in H.M.S. Hermoine. Promoted Chief Motor Mechanic on 1 July 1919, he was shore demobilised on 20 November 1919. He subsequently saw Home Service during the Second World War, and was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1951 whilst employed as Manager of the Film-Coating Department, Ilford, Limited.

Sold together with the recipient’s related miniature awards.