Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private E. Hopwood, Royal Engineers
British War and Victory Medals (39205 Pte. E. Hopwood. R.E.); Defence Medal, good very fine

Pair: Second Lieutenant S. Dudman, Royal Engineers
British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. S. Dudman.) nearly extremely fine

Pair: Private H. King, Bedfordshire Regiment, later Army Service Corps
British War and Victory Medals (4-5081 Pte. H. King. Bedf. R.) nearly very fine

Pair: Sergeant T. Tully, Royal Irish Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (10889 Sjt. T. Tully. R. Ir. R.) edge bruises, very fine (9) £100-140

Edwin Hopwood was born in York on 19 July 1884, and served with the Royal Engineers during the Great War and as an Air Raid Warden during the Second World War.


Stanley Dudman was born in Hampstead, Middlesex, on 3 March 1886, and was educated at Cliftonville College, Margate, Kent. He had been an apprentice with Messrs. Browett, Lindlater & Co. (Steam Engine manufacturers), had worked for and was engineer and manager of a number of motor, engineering and light railway companies, and was an Associate Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.

Dudman was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 30 May 1917 and served during the Great War on the Western Front with 14th Light Railway Operating Company, Royal Engineers, from 30 June 1917. He was gassed in the middle of March 1918 at Ypres. developed tuberculosis and was invalided home later in 1918. He relinquished his commission in October 1919. He died in Hampstead in 1970.


Henry King was born in St Alban’s, Hertfordshire, in 1873. He attested for the 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment on 28 November 1891 and completed 12 years’ service being discharged on 16 January 1904. He re-enlisted at Hatfield on 6 June 1908 in the 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment and on 8 November 1914 he was posted to the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment and proceeded to France (additionally entitled to a 1914 Star). He returned home on 21 January 1915 sick and was discharged time expired on 4 October 1915. He re-enlisted in the Army Service Corps at Aldershot on 2 November 1915 and saw further service in France between 16 December 1915 and 12 November 1918. After furlough at home he returned to France on 21 December 1918 before finally returning home on 2 March 1919. He was finally discharged on 31 March 1920.


Thomas Tully attested for the Royal Irish Regiment on 14 February 1914 and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914. He was discharged due to wounds on 24 September 1918, and awarded a Silver War Badge.