Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (10) (241105 Cpl. T. P. Pickavance. S. Lan. R.; 28395 Pte. T. Wilcock. S. Lan. R.; 17262 Pte. F. Consterdine. S. Lan. R.; 67241. 21-941 Pte. C. Robinson. North’d Fus.; 20-984 Pte. J. Atherton. North’d Fus.; 24751 Pte. J. Bradley. North’d Fus.; 7-4314 A-Cpl. B. W. Lister. North’d Fus.; 24-1081 Cpl. E. Adams. North’d Fus.; 23-1212 Pte. H. Grieg. North’d Fus.; 96 Sjt. A. Hermiston. A. & S.H.) very fine or better (10) £100-140

Thomas Pickavance, a native of St Helens, enlisted into the 1/5th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, serving with them from January 1916. During his battalion’s action at the Battle of the Lys he was mortally wounded and died of his wounds on 30 April 1918. He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France, and is also remembered on the St Helens War Memorial.
Sold with a South Lancashire Regiment cap badge.

Thomas Wilcock enlisted on 1 March 1916 and served with the South Lancashire Regiment. He later transferred to the Labour Corps and was discharged on 5 June 1919, due to sickness.

Fred Consterdine served with the South Lancashire Regiment before transferring to the Labour Corps.

Christopher Robinson enlisted on 11 November 1914 and served with the 21st (Service) Battalion (2nd Tyneside Scottish), Northumberland Fusiliers. He was discharged due to wounds on 17 April 1917.

Joseph Atherton was born in Bolton, Lancashire and enlisted into 20th (Service) Battalion (1st Tyneside Scottish), Northumberland Fusiliers, landing in France with the battalion in January 1916. He was wounded in the leg on 1 July 1916 during the attack at La Boisselle and was invalided home on 5 July 1916. Upon recovery, he returned to the Western Front, being posted to 21st (Service) Battalion (2nd Tyneside Scottish). He was killed in action on 5 June 1917 during an attack on German positions South of Gavrelle, near Arras. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

John Bradley served on garrison duty in Malta with the 1st Garrison Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers.

Bernard William Lister, a native of Chesterfield, served on the Western Front with the 1/7th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers and was later posted to the 22nd (Service) Battalion (3rd Tyneside Scottish). He is recorded as wounded in the April 1917 Casualty List and also suffered from shell shock in July 1917 (St. George’s Gazette refers).

Edward Adams, was born in Forest Hall, Newcastle and resided at Wallsend. He enlisted into the 24th (Service) Battalion (1st Tyneside Irish) Northumberland Fusiliers on 10 November 1914 and landed in France with the battalion in January 1916. Edward suffered a gunshot wound to the left knee during the disastrous attack at La Boiselle, Somme on 1 July 1916. During this action, the 1st Tyneside Irish suffered 620 casualties (18 officers and 602 other ranks). Upon recovery he was attached to the 85th Training Reserve Battalion and was discharged on 22 August 1917 due to his wounds.
Sold with original card box of issue and postal envelope.

Holly Grieg was born in West Hartlepool and resided at Sunderland. He served on the Western Front with the 23rd (Service) Battalion (4th Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers. On 14 July 1917, Grieg was taken prisoner during a German raid on British trenches at Hargicourt, near Peronne. He was 1 of 6 men captured at No. 11 post and was incarcerated in Dülmen Prisoner of War Camp, Germany.

Andrew Hermiston joined the army around 1903 and served during the First World War with the 1/7th Battalion Princess Louise’s (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders), landing in France on 15 December 1915. He suffered a gunshot wound to the fingers on 25 April 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres. On this day, the battalion sustained approximately 437 killed, wounded and missing.