Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private H. W. Silk, Middlesex Regiment, later Labour Corps, Royal Engineers, and Royal Artillery

1914 Star, with later converted slide clasp (L-11725 Pte H. W. Silk. 1/Middx:R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-11725 Pte H. W. Silk. Midd’x R.); Jubilee 1935, mounted as worn, very fine (4) £100-140

Herbert William Silk was born in the parish of St Clement Dane, Tottenham, Middlesex, on 19 August 1888, and attested for the Middlesex Regiment on 12 August 1907, having previously served in the 5th (Militia) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. He served with the 1st Battalion in India, and during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 August 1914, and subsequently served with 902nd Area Employment Company, Labour Corps, and with the Royal Engineers. In 1935 he was awarded the Silver Jubilee Medal whilst serving as a Gunner with 105th Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army), and in civilian life was employed as a postman. He died in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in March 1952.