Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant E. C. Woolley, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, formerly 28th London Regiment (The Artists Rifles), wounded at Contalmaison in July 1916

1914-15 Star (3341 Pte., 28/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.); together with recipient’s named Ceylon Great War Voluntary Services Medallion, bronze, 52mm by 45mm, good very fine or better (4) £150-200

Erik Christensen Woolley was born at Manchester in 1887, and educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh and Christ’s College, Cambridge. He enlisted into the 28th Londons in January 1915, before receiving his commission in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in December 1915. Second Lieutenant Woolley was wounded at Contalmaison on 13 July 1916, when he received a gun shot wound to the left shoulder. Sold with several pages copied from recipients National Archives correspondence file, including a letter written by Woolley from Ceylon in September 1919 regarding his disabilty pension, in which he states ‘I beg to state, that the effects of my wounds are exactly as they were, when I first received my pension. Probably, if I were examined by some young experienced doctors, and not by some worn out and antediluvian members of the same profession, you too, might agree with me.’