Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Driver F. Cox, Army Service Corps
1914-15 Star (T3-024355 Dvr: F. Cox. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (T3-024355 Dvr. F. Cox. A.S.C.) nearly extremely fine

Pair: Driver E. H. Batchelor, Royal Engineers
British War and Victory Medals (542214 Dvr. E. H. Batchelor. R.E.) with named card box of issue, enclosure slips for both awards and registered envelope addressed to ‘Mr E. H. Batchelor, Gattons Farm, Cliffe-at-Hoo, nr. Rochester, Kent’; together with a Royal Engineers cap badge and a pair of brass shoulder titles, extremely fine

Pair: Private S. Prestt, South Lancashire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (39420 Pte. S. Prestt. S. Lan. R.) in damaged named card box of issue with torn outer envelope addressed to ‘Mr. S. Prestt. 53 Haresfinch View, St. Helens.’, extremely fine

Pair: Private E. Knobbs, Machine Gun Corps
British War and Victory Medals (100291 Pte. E. Knobbs. M.G.C.); together with a Machine Gun Corps cap badge and uniform button, edge bruises therefore very fine (9) £100-£140

Frederick Cox served with the Army Service Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 December 1914. He was discharged to the Class Z reserve on 7 May 1919.

Edwin Herman Batchelor was born in 1896 at Cliffe-at-Hoo, Kent and died in 1962 at Whitstable, Kent.

Samuel Prestt was born in 1879 in Dublin, Ireland but by 1891 he had moved with his family to St. Helens, Lancashire. He served during the Great War with the 1/5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, and died in St. Helens in 1943.

Ephraim Knobbs served with the Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry) during the Great War. His unit was disembodied on 8 March 1919.