Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel E. H. C. Childe-Thomas, Hampshire Regiment, late Royal Irish Fusiliers

British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. E. H. C. Childe-Thomas.); Ceylon Volunteer Service Medal 1914-18 (E. H. S. Childe-Thomas) very fine (3) £180-£220

Edgar Henry Sumpter Childe-Thomas was born at Hucclecote, Gloucestershire, and was educated at on the Isle of Wight. He entered the 3rd Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, in April 1897 and served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 1899 to 1902 (wounded; Queen’s South Africa Medal with three clasps, and King’s South Africa Medal with two clasps). Emigrating to Ceylon, he was employed as a Planter on various estates before returning to England following the outbreak of the Great War, and was commissioned temporary Captain in the Hampshire Regiment on 5 October 1914. Employed by the War Office to train the New Armies, he served with the 14th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916, and took part in the battles of Richbourg, the Ancre, and the Somme, being advanced Acting Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1917. Wounded, he was demobilised on 5 October 1919.

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