Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A scarce ‘double issue’ British War Medal pair awarded to Lieutenant W. G. Sewall, East African Unattached List, late East African Mounted Rifles, also British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (Lieut. W. G. Sewell [sic]; W. G. Sewall.) good very fine (2) £60-80

William Gilman Sewall, an American citizen, was born in 1874 and worked as a farmer in Njora, Kenya. He served during the Great War firstly as a Trooper with the East African Mounted Rifles in the East Africa, Nyasaland, and Northern Rhodesia theatre of War from 30 August 1914, before sailing to England and serving with the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem on the Western Front from 19 June to December 1915. Returning to East Africa, he was commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant, East African Unattached List, on 3 July 1916, and was subsequently promoted Lieutenant. Following the end of the War, he sailed from Liverpool to Montreal on the S.S. Megantic in September 1919, and died in New York on 14 July 1941.