Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant A. L. Wells, Machine Gun Corps, late Surrey Yeomanry

1914-15 Star (2007 Pte., Surr. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.) good very fine (3) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Surrey Yeomanry.

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Alfred Laming Wells was born in Epsom on 8 September 1892. A Traveller by occupation, he enlisted into the Surrey Yeomanry on 15 September 1914. He served with the M.E.F., 10 May 1915-3 March 1916, during which time he served 21 days for being drunk whilst on guard; and in France/Flanders, 4 March 1916-29 May 1917. In January 1918 he was appointed to a temporary commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Machine Gun Corps. 2nd Lieutenant Wells joined his unit in France in April 1918 but in June was admitted to hospital suffering from Urethritis and was shipped back to England. In 1919 he is recorded as having further medical problems, added to which, he was court martialled for ‘scandalous conduct’ but was acquitted. Sold with copied m.i.c. and 21 sheets of service papers.