Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Company Sergeant Major W. M. White, 1st South African Infantry, formerly South African Constabulary, who was killed in action on 8 October 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (4122 Sjt., 1/S. A. Inf.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (99 3rd Cl. Tpr., S.A.C.) top two bars loose on ribbon; British War and Victory Medals (C.S.M., M.M., 1st S.A.I.); together with memorial plaque (William Mark White) nearly extremely fine (5) £400-500

M.M. London Gazette13 November 1918.

William Mark White was born in Galashiels, Scotland on 12 February 1880. He enlisted into the South African Constabulary on 19 July 1901, with whom he continued to serve until December 1907. During the Great War he served with the 1st South African Infantry and was wounded in action on three occasions, 10 February 1917 (gun shot wound, hand), 9 April 1917 (gun shot wound, right arm) and 27 July 1918 (gun shot wound right buttock, severe). Company Sergeant Major White was killed in action in France and Flanders on 8 October 1918, and is buried in Reumont Churchyard, France. Sold with comprehensive copied research detail.