Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant P. E. Bryan, Royal Engineers Signal Service
1914-15 Star (74662 Sjt. P. E. Bryan. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. P. E. Bryan.) good very fine

Pair: Sergeant W. C. Mather, No. 13 Signal Company, Royal Engineers, who served at Murmansk in 1919
British War and Victory Medals (62277 Sjt. W. C. Mather. R.E.) in named card boxes of issue, extremely fine (5) £80-£100

Philip Edmund Bryan was born in Islington, London, in 1888. Appointed Temporary Boy Clerk (General Post Office) in the London Gazette of 5 February 1904, he was advanced to a Civil Service Commission in the London Gazette of 21 September 1905. Taking residence at Herne Hill Road in Brixton, he later attested for the Royal Engineers and served in France as a Sergeant from 7 October 1915. Discharged to a commission, he remained with the Royal Engineers throughout the Great War and later applied for his 1914-15 Star in 1919 as a Lieutenant in ‘L’ Signal Company. Returning home to London, Bryan resumed his pre-War civilian employment as a telegraphist at the Central Telegraph Office (G.P.O.) and set about raising a family with his wife Ada.

Walter Charles Mather was born in Woolwich in 1891 and lived with his parents at 8 Basildon Road, Plumstead, London. A wireless operator’s assistant, he attested for the Royal Engineers at Woolwich on 12 January 1915 and was posted to No. 13 Signal Company. Taking courses of instruction at Chatham, Bulford and Woking, he qualified as Proficient Electrician on 25 April 1915, and later became a wireless operator and instructor. Raised Skilled Electrician on 28 September 1917, he served with Headquarters, Eastern Command, from 25 June 1918 (50 Pall Mall, London), and is recorded upon his Army Service Record as being posted to Murmansk on 22 August 1919.
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