Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Quartermaster-Sergeant Walter Holloway, Royal Fusiliers
Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (6110 Q.M. Sjt. W. Holloway. Rl. Fus.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Walter Holloway.) mounted as worn, good very fine

Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Charles Crowley) nearly extremely fine (3) £60-£80

Walter Holloway was born in Calcutta, Bengal, and attested for the South Staffordshire Regiment at Lichfield on 3 July 1886, aged 18, a clerk by trade. He transferred to the 3rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, as Colour-Sergeant on 9 April 1898, and was discharged ‘medically unfit’ at Woolwich on 11 January 1905. He died at Bournemouth on 31 July 1952, aged 83, when described as a retired School Attendance Officer. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.