Special Collections

Sold on 28 March 2012

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The Collection of Medals to the Wiltshire Regiment formed by the late Michael Hayward

Michael ‘Mike’ Hayward

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№ 835

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29 March 2012

Hammer Price:
£500

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Private A. Wellsteed, 7th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (13801 Pte. A. G. Wellsteed, 7/Wilts. R.); 1914-15 Star (13801 Pte. A. Wellsteed, Wilts. R.); British War and Victory Medals (13801 Pte. A. Wellstead, Wilts. R.) note variation in name, good very fine (4)
£350-400

M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919.

Private Arthur Wellsteed, Wiltshire Regiment came from Gloucester and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 September 1915. With the 7th Battalion he won the Military Medal. Later served with the Worcestershire Regiment and the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. With copied m.i.c.