Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant J. E. Welch, Royal Field Artillery

King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (26174 Bomb: J. E. Welch. R.F.A.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (26174 Cpl. J. E. Welch. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (26174 Sjt. J. E. Welch. R.A.) good very fine (4) £120-£160

John Edward Welch was born in Ilminster, Somerset, in 1878. He attested into the Royal Field Artillery at Taunton on 12 February 1898 and served in South Africa during the Boer War from 5 December 1899, returned for service at home on 10 November 1904. Additionally entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Transvaal, Tugela Heights, and Relief of Ladysmith, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 November 1914 (clasp confirmed on his 1914 Star). Appointed Sergeant on 11 February 1916, he was discharged ‘Class Z’ on 18 February 1919.

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