Auction Catalogue

5 & 6 December 2018

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Lot

№ 795

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6 December 2018

Hammer Price:
£320

Four: Wheeler Quartermaster Sergeant W. T. Lewis, Royal Field Artillery

India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (75084 Bombdr. Wheeler W. Lewis. 9th. Fd. By. R.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (75084 Sjt: Whlr: W. T. Lewis. 9th. Bty: R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (75084 Serjt:- Whlr: W. T. Lewis. R.F.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (75084 Whlr. Q.M. Sjt. W. T. Lewis. R.F.A.) contact marks and edge bruising, therefore nearly very fine (4) £340-£380

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2001.

William Thomas Lewis was born in Kamptee, India, on 14 December 1873 and attested as a Boy Soldier in the Royal Artillery at Bangalore on 14 August 1889. Posted to England in December 1891, he was appointed Bombardier on 12 May 1894, and returned to India in December of that year with 9 Field Battery, where he served as part of the Tirah Field Force. He subsequently served in South Africa during the Boer War from 28 January 1900 to 22 October 1902. Advanced Wheeler Quartermaster Sergeant on 1 August 1907, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £5, per Army Order 77 of 1908, and was discharged on 13 August 1910, after 21 years’ service. Following the outbreak of the Great War he re-enlisted into the Royal Field Artillery on 8 November 1915.

Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts.