Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.S.M. group of five awarded to Acting Sergeant W. Hoxley, Royal Engineers, who served as a skilled telegraphist on the Western Front for almost the entire duration of hostilities

1914 Star, with rosette on riband (1738 Cpl. W. Hoxley. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (1738 T. Sjt. W. Hoxley. R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (1738 Cpl. W. Hoxley. R.E.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (1738 Cpl. A.Sjt.- W. Hoxley. R.E.) minor contact marks, generally very fine (5) £180-£220

M.S.M. London Gazette 18 January 1919.

Walter Arthur Hoxley was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, in 1883, and attested for the Royal Engineers as a boy soldier on 9 April 1898. Appointed Sapper 9 August 1901, he qualified as a skilled telephonist on 8 January 1903 and was posted to ‘K’ Telegraph Company at Dublin on 28 April 1909. Transferred to ‘L’ Signal Company as Corporal on 4 August 1914, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 August 1914 and was raised Sergeant on 27 September 1918. Awarded the M.S.M. whilst serving with ‘K’ Signal Company, and the L.S.G.C. Medal with £5 gratuity under Army Order No. 125 of 1919, he was later discharged at Chatham following 22 years of service with the Colours. Retired to Allan House, 13 York Road, Salisbury, Hoxley died in 1937 aged just 54 years.