Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant W. H. Worrall, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Somme on 3 September 1916

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3998 Pte., 1/R. War. R.); 1914-15 Star (2839 Pte., R. War. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2839 Sjt., R. War. R.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed, with related Memorial Plaque (William Henry Worrall), Army Temperance Association awards (3), all in silver, and I.D. disc, the 1914-18 issues in their card boxes of issue with registered envelopes and Record Office letters, the Sudan pair with contact marks and edge bruising, good fine, the Great War awards good extremely fine (10) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties formed by Tim Parsons.

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William Henry Worrall was born in Coventry in March 1873 and enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in July 1893. Posted to the 2nd Battalion in Ceylon, he transferred to the 1st Battalion on Malta in March 1896 and went on to serve in Egypt and Sudan between January 1897 and October 1898, including the Khartoum operations under Kitchener. Returning home in November 1902, following subsequent service in the East Indies, he was discharged in 1905.

Re-enlisting in his old regiment at Coventry in August 1914, Worrall was posted to the 2nd Battalion and arrived in France in June 1915. Advanced to Sergeant, he was killed in action at Ginchy on the Somme on 3 September 1916, when the Battalion sustained over 300 casualties.

Worrall is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial; photographs of the relevant panel are included.