Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Serjeant W. Hallion, Northumberland Fusiliers, late Royal Dublin Fusiliers

1914-15 Star (10290 Cpl., R. Dub. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (10290 Cpl., R. D. Fus.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (7075137 Sjt., North’d. Fus.); Army Rifle Association Medal, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1922, unnamed, slight edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (5) £140-180

Corporal William Hallion, 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, landed in Gallipoli at Helles “V” Beach from the River Clyde, below Fort Sedd-el-Bahr, on 25 April 1915. The casualties of the 1st Battalion from 25 April to 1 May 1915 were: killed or died of wounds - 10 officers and 152 other ranks; wounded - 13 officers and 329 other ranks. On 1 May 1915 the active strength of the battalion was 1 officer and 374 other ranks. Sold with two copied photographs of the River Clyde, another of Hallion in a group photograph of the ‘Gallipoli Landing Party, April 1915, serving on March 17th, 1920’ and another of members of the Sergeant’s Mess 1920, where he is listed as a ‘Sergeant-Drummer’.