Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant T. Lewis, Bedfordshire Regiment, late Essex Regiment, who was wounded on the Western Front during the Great War

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial connections between second and third clasps (7029 Corpl: T. Lewis. Essex Regt.); 1914-15 Star (8483 Sjt. T. Lewis, Bedf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (8483 Sjt. T. Lewis. Bedf. R.) mounted as worn, edge bruise to QSA, otherwise good very fine (4) £160-£200

Thomas Lewis was born in Llanarth, Cardiganshire in 1873. Attesting for the Essex Regiment, he served with the 2nd Volunteer Company, 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, and received the Queen’s South Africa Medal with the five clasps present in his group (clasps confirmed in WO100/191, with the last three appearing on a separate roll from the first two).

A Schoolmaster by profession, following the outbreak of the Great War he attested for the Bedfordshire Regiment at Stratford on 8 September 1914. Advanced Sergeant, he served with the 8th (Service) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 August 1915, and suffered a ‘gun shot wound fracture of ribs.’ He was discharged on account of his wounds on 7 June 1917, having latterly served at home in the 28th Training Reserve Battalion, Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

Sold with the recipient’s Soldiers’ Small Book for the Great War.