Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant J. R. Dewing, Tank Corps, late Company Quartermaster Sergeant, Northumberland Fusiliers and Machine Gun Corps

1914-15 Star (16-56 C.Q.M. Sjt. J. R. Dewing North’d Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. R. Dewing.) good very fine (3) £100-£140

James Richard Dewing attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 7 September 1914. He served with them as a Company Quartermaster Sergeant during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 January 1915, before transferring to the Machine Gun Corps, and was commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant in the Tank Corps on 28 November 1917.

Sold together with the recipient’s Commission Document, in OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Granta, Rawcliffe Road, Goole, Yorkshire’; and the recipient’s Discharge Certificate.