Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt. E. D. H. Willmott, Essex R.) nearly extremely fine £160-200

Serving in the 5th Battalion Essex Regiment, Willmott is several times mentioned in Essex Units in the War 1914-1919, Vol. 5 by J. W. Burrows. One such mention was in August 1914 when Lieutenant Willmott was an officer in charge of a unit guarding German prisoners-of-war at Shotley - one of the first detachments of the British Army to be charged with such a duty. Captain Willmott was wounded on 26 March 1917, at Ali-el-Muntar, during the 1st Battle of Gaza. In 1919 he had attained the rank of Major. Sold with some copied research.