Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (10) (19125 Pte. H. J. White. C. Gds.; R-4653 Pte. H. Ellis. K. R. Rif. C.; 187083 Gnr H. Barton. R.A.; 2.Lieut. R. R. W. Millward. R.F.C.; Lieut. A. S. Millward.; 109878 Cpl. F. Page. Tank Corps.; 6491 Sjt. A. D. Donald., 15-Lond. R.; SE-26452 Pte. C. Chamberlain. A.V.C.; 5081 Cpl. H. Penkethman. R. Fus.; Alexander Winters) very fine or better (10) £140-180

Henry John White, a native of Yeovil, Somerset, served on the Western Front with the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards. He was killed in action on 9 October 1917 whilst taking part in the successful attack on German positions during the Battle of Poelcappelle, the battalion capturing fifty prisoners and two machine guns. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

Herbert Ellis, a native of Nottingham, enlisted on 11 September 1914 and served on the Western Front with the 13th (Service) Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, landing in France on 30 July 1915. He was killed in action during a trench raid on German positions at Berles-au-Bois, France. The raid was carried out by 4 officers and 70 men of the 13th Battalion, accompanied by a small party of Royal Engineers. It was a success: ‘many Germans were killed by bomb, bayonet and bullets, several dugouts were bombed and a mine shaft exploded by the R.E.’ The total casualties among the raiders were 1 officer and 13 other ranks wounded, 1 officer and 6 other ranks missing. Ellis is buried in Berles-Au-Bois Churchyard Extension, France.

Harold Barton, a native of St. Helens, served on the Western Front with "B" Battery, 161st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He was killed in action on 27 May 1918:
‘At 2.00 a.m. the enemy put down a very heavy barrage on our support lines and North of us, but no infantry action developed. A direct hit on “C” Battery’s signal dug-out killed 5 signallers. In the evening a direct hit on “B” Battery’s officers’ mess wounded Major C. W. Ward, M.C., Lieutenant B. Bakewell and Second Lieutenant T. Campbell. Two of the servants were killed and another wounded.’
Barton is buried in Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, France.

Richard Ronald William Millward, a native of Accrington, Lancashire, served as a Trooper with the 1/1st Berkshire Yeomanry, landing in Egypt on 5 April 1915. His unit then moved dismounted to Gallipoli in August 1915, before withdrawing back to Egypt the following December. He transferred to the supply branch of the Army Service Corps on 1 March 1916 and was discharged for a commission in the Royal Flying Corps on 17 February 1917. He qualified as an aerial gunner at No.2 School of Military Aviation in Aboukir, Egypt and was injured due to an accident on 23 March 1917, while flying in a 22 Training Squadron Avro at Aboukir Aerodrome. He was invalided back to the UK and continued to serve with the Royal Flying Corps, and later the Royal Air Force, carrying out sedentary duties.

Alexander Sydney Millward, a native of Southampton, was commissioned into the 8th (Service) Battalion King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) on 10 February 1915 and landed in Egypt with 6th (Service) Battalion on 21 November 1915. The battalion later moved to Mesopotamia. He was wounded in April 1916 during operations to relieve the besieged garrison at Kut-al-Amara, and then again on 9 February 1917 near ‘The Liquorice Factory’, west of Kut, while defending a trench captured previously from the Turks. Millward relinquished his commission on 21 May 1919 on account of his ill health, caused by his wounds.
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Frank Page, a native of Swindon enlisted on 23 November 1915, was mobilised on 19 February 1917 and posted to the 2nd Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He transferred to ‘J’ Battalion of the Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps on 3 July 1917, which was re-designated ‘J’(10th) Battalion Tank Corps later that month. He served on the Western Front, landing in France on 20 December 1917.

Alfred Don Donald, a native of Haringay, served on the Western Front with the 1/15th (County of London) Battalion (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles), London Regiment from 7 August 1916 to 31 January 1919. He was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry (London Gazette 13 March 1919).

Charles Chamberlain, a native of Hulme, Manchester, enlisted into the Army Veterinary Corps on 7 June 1916 and landed in France on 19 June 1917, serving with the 7th Veterinary Hospital.

Harold Penkethman originally served with the Royal Fusiliers, before transferring to the East Kent Regiment and then to the Army Ordnance Corps.

Alexander Winters was born in Belfast in 1888 and a ship’s carpenter by trade. He served in the Mercantile Marine during the Great War and is known to have sailed on the Blue Funnel Line ships S.S. Teucer and T.S.S. Ulysses. At the time Winters was known to have served aboard Ulysses, 1915, it was being used as a troopship transporting Australian soldiers to the Suez area.