Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (11) (Capt. W. L. Pollard-Willison; 2 Lieut. R. M. Lester; 2 Lieut. W. C. P. Drake; 98 Pte. T. Brandon, 16142 Pte. G. E. Hood, Devon R.; 5615 Pte. F. Hutchings, Devon R.; R. Mun. Fus.; 6597 Pte. G. Harrington, 18-Lond. R.; 110806 Pnr. W. Heliwell, R.E.; 60080 Dvr. H. Trickey, R.E.; 66631 Pte. C. Tucker, R.A.M.C.; 69676 Pte.1 D. Cole, R.A.F.), medal to ‘Harrington’, suspension slack, some with slight edge bruising, very fine and better (13) £120-160

Captain William Leonard Pollard-Willison, Indian Army, late 6th Battalion Hampshire Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Reginald M. Lester, 18th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 1 September 1916. Entitled to the Silver War Badge, sold with copied m.i.c. and paper-clipping announcing his death - ‘Lt. Col. Reginand Lester, of Peitor Road, Torquay, founder and past chairman of the Churches Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies has died, aged 79. He was the founder of the freelance division of the Institute of Journalists and past president of the institute. ... He was Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, since 1924, and was the author of 27 books’.

Medal to 2nd Lieutenant Drake, R.A., sold with Charing Cross Hospital Prize Medallion, 57mm., bronze, to ‘Cecil Drake’ for ‘Anatomia’, dated, ‘MDCCCLXVIII’.

16142 Private George E. Hood, Devonshire Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 7 October 1915. He later served in the 20th Battalion Machine Gun Corps and was accidently killed on 18 December 1917, aged 30 years. He was buried in the Giavera British Cemetery, Italy. Sold with copied m.i.c.

98 Private Thomas Brandon, Royal Munster Fusiliers, entered the Balkans theatre of war on 8 July 1915. He was later discharged. Sold with Silver War Badge and copied m.i.c.

110806 Pioneer Heliwell, R.E., entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 August 1918. Sold with copied m.i.c.