Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. Winter, Middlesex Regiment
1914-15 Star (2696 Pte. W. Winter, Midd’x R.); British War and Victory Medals (2696 Pte. W. Winter. Midd’x R.) together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘49737’, contact marks, very fine

Pair: Major G. G. Wilson, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who was wounded at Gallipoli on 10 August 1915, and died at home in 1920
British War and Victory Medals (Major G. G. Wilson.) nearly extremely fine (5) £80-£100

William G. Winter attested for the Middlesex Regiment on 12 November 1914 and served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War from 9 August 1915. He was discharged due to wounds on 27 December 1916 and was awarded a Silver War Badge No. 49737.

George Gibson Wilson was born on 29 November 1878 and saw service during the Boer War with the 28th (Bedfordshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry, first as a Sergeant, No. 14999, before receiving a commission as a Lieutenant (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa with clasps for Cape Colony, Transvaal, Johannesburg, and South Africa 1901). Following the outbreak of the Great War he attested as a Private, No. 1213, into the 3rd (Sharpshooters) County of London Yeomanry on 22 September 1914. Appointed Lance Corporal the same day, he was discharged to a commission into the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment on 22 March 1915. He served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War at Gallipoli from 16 June 1915 and received a gun shot wound in his right arm on 10 August 1915. Whilst recovering in hospital, he contracted a severe case of dysentery which necessitated him being invalided to the U.K. Appointed Major, he returned to Egypt but was again hospitalised with tuberculosis and returned to the U.K. on 19 August 1916. He died at his home, Chapel Farm, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, on 29 January 1920.

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