Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant W. H. Hutt, Royal Field Artillery, late Royal Engineers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (8328 Cpl. W. H. Hutt. Rl. Engrs:); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (32225 Bombr. H. [sic] Hutt 75th By. R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (32225 Dvr: W. H. Hutt. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (32225 A-Sjt. W. H. Hutt. R.A.); with silver prize medal, obverse engraved ‘Corpl. Hutt. 75th Battery R.F.A.’, reverse engraved ‘C Winners Subsection Tournament 1914’, mounted for display, contact marks overall, good fine (6) £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Rob Campbell Collection relating to Clevedon, Somerset.

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Walter Herman Hutt was born in Buckland, Oxford, in March 1880. He was apprenticed as blacksmith to Light Brothers of Clevedon. Hutt served as a volunteer with the Clevedon section of the Devon and Somerset Royal Engineer Volunteers. He served with the latter in South Africa, March 1901 - July 1902. Hutt advanced to 2nd Corporal in December 1901, and was discharged 1 August 1902.

Hutt re-enlisted for service with the Royal Field Artillery on the North West Frontier, and served during the Great War in the French theatre of war from 15 January 1915. After the war he resided in Clevedon, before moving to Bristol where he was present during the Second War. After Hutt’s wife died in 1949, he became a Chelsea Pensioner. Hutt died in London in February 1958.

Sold with five original photographs of recipient in uniform from various stages of his career; and copied research.