Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private W. Smith, West Yorkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 12 April 1918
British War and Victory Medals (61740 Pte. W. Smith. W. York. R.) extremely fine

Pair: Private T. Loosemore, Welsh Regiment, later Cheshire Regiment, Labour Corps and Royal Army Medical Corps
British War and Victory Medals (42905 Pte. T. Loosemore. Ches. R.) good very fine

Pair: Private H. R. Murden, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War during the German Spring Offensive in 1918

British War and Victory Medals (95195 Pte. H. R. Murden. R.A.M.C.) in original named box of issue with 2 card identity discs ‘95195 H. R. Murden R.A.M.C. C.E.’, extremely fine

Pair: Lance Corporal J. D. Edwards, Military Foot Police, late King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (P-7033 L.Cpl. J. D. Edwards. M.F.P.) good very fine (8) £120-£160

Walter Smith, a pressman, was born in Leicester and enlisted in the 7th Training Reserve Battalion on 14 May 1917. Transferred to the 51st (Graduated) Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, he served in France from 1 April 1918 with the 15th/17th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Initially reported as missing in action, the recipient’s Army Service Record adds: ‘Presumed to have died on or since 12-4-1918.’ He is buried in Le Grand Beaumart British Cemetery, Steenwerck.

Thomas Loosemore, a farm labourer, was born in 1898 and attested for the Welsh Regiment at Cardiff on 11 May 1916. Posted to the 21st Battalion, he transferred to the 20th (Labour) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment on 28 June 1916 and served in France from 21 July 1916. Appointed to 60th Company, Labour Corps 14 May 1917, he returned to England on 24 July 1917 and was discharged to Army Reserve in July 1919.

Harold Reginald Murden was born in Derby on 14 September 1893 and is recorded in 1911 as a boarding resident of 25, Eden Street, Alvaston, Derby. He served during the Great War with the 2/3rd North Midland Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, and was captured on the Western Front in April 1918. Repatriated to Dover on 22 November 1918, he later returned home to Derby and his civilian employment as a cutter.

John Devenport Edwards was born in 1895 and lived at Frankwell, Shrewsbury. He originally attested for the 4th Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry on 24 October 1914, before transferring to the Military Foot Police in September 1916 and qualifying as a Military Policeman at Swansea on 8 January 1917. Posted to Italy from 17 August 1917 to 10 April 1919, Edwards was demobilised in May 1919.

Sold with copied research.