Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Acting Lance-Corporal W. T. Shorney, Royal Engineers

1914-15 Star (1735 Spr. W. T. Shorney, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (1735 Spr. W. T. Shorney. R.E.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (518922 Spr. -A L.Cpl.- W. T. Shorney. R.E.); together with bronze prize medal, engraved ‘L/Cpl. W. Shorney 559 Army Tps. Co. R.E., V Corps Tps. R.E. 2nd. L.C. Team 2-7-18’, nearly very fine (5) £70-£90

William Shorney attested for the Royal Engineers during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 September 1915, and was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 491 of November 1921, by which time he had transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery.