Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private A. Gordon, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays)
British War and Victory Medals (2DG-4612 Pte. A. Gordon. 2-D. Gds.) better than very fine

Pair: Private E. Martin, Machine Gun Corps
British War and Victory Medals (44840 Pte. E. Martin. M.G.C.) very fine

Pair: Private S. A. F. Smith, Machine Gun Corps
British War and Victory Medals (118441 Pte. S. A. F. Smith. M.G.C.) with named card box of issue, very fine

Pair: Sergeant E. J. Hanneman, 2nd South African Infantry Brigade
British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Sergt. E. J. Hanneman. 2nd S.A.I. Bgde.); together with a Durban Recruiting Committee small bronze medallion, very fine (9) £120-£160

Edward Martin was born at Carters Green, Stafford, and attested for the South Staffordshire Regiment at Walsall on 5 May 1915, having previously served in the Regiment’s 5th (Reserve) Battalion. Transferring to No. 7 Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, he served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from August 1916, and was admitted to No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station suffering from ‘trench feet’ in December 1916. Briefly advanced Lance Corporal on 25 May 1918, being swiftly deprived of his stripe on account of drunkenness on 30 May 1918, he was disembodied on 1 April 1919.