Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Victualler’s Assistant L. L. Wells, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (M.11269, L. L. Wells, S.S.A., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.11269 L. L. Wells. V.A. R.N.) good very fine

Three: Corporal W. Wilson, Gordon Highlanders
1914-15 Star (3044 L.Cpl. W. Wilson. Gord. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (3044 Cpl. W. Wilson. Gordons.) good very fine (6) £80-£120

Leonard Leslie Wells was born in Brixton, London, on 25 May 1894, and pre-War was employed as a Signal Lad at Bermondsey Station with the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. He joined the Royal Navy on 18 January 1915, and served in the Atlantic and later at various shore based establishments, first as a Ship’s Steward’s Assistant, before being promoted Victualler’s Assistant on 28 February 1918. He was demobilised on 16 January 1920, and died in Kennington, London, on 8 February 1923.

William Wilson attested for the Gordon Highlanders in October 1914, and served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 26 March 1915. Transferring to the 7th Battalion, he saw further service with the Labour Corps, before finally serving with the 44th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.

Sold together with two Silver War Badges, the reverses officially numbered ‘B92743’ and ‘B287116’, awarded to Lance-Corporal Arthur Horsford Smele, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (discharged on account of wounds on 20 January 1919) and Acting Sergeant Thomas Percy Cowtan, Worcestershire Regiment (discharged on account of sickness on 15 March 1919).

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