Auction Catalogue

15 October 2020

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 318

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15 October 2020

Hammer Price:
£340

Family Group:

Three
: Sergeant W. C. Wakley, North Staffordshire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (2968 Sjt. W. C. Wakley, N. Staff. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (240684 Sjt. W. C. Wakeley [sic], 6/N. Staff. R.); together with a National Rifle Association Bronze Medal (Won by Pt. W. C. Wakley, 2nd V.B.N.S. Regt.) with top bronze brooch bar inscribed ‘Staffordshire 1902 [sic]’, very fine and better

Volunteer Forces Long Service, V.R. (No. 36 Sergt. W. Wakley, 2nd V.B. North Staff. Regt.) engraved naming, very fine (5) £240-£280

William Charles Wakley attested for the North Staffordshire Regiment (Territorial Force) and served with the 2nd/6th Battalion during the Great War, later served in the Liverpool Regiment.

Sold with a typed letter from the Staffordshire County Rifle Association confirming that W. C. Wakeley [
sic] and another were winners of the National Rifle Association Bronze Medal, competed for at Sedgeley Park, on 22 June 1908.