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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 411

Family group:

Five: Colonel F. A. Worley, Royal Artillery

1914-15 Star (29745 Sjt. F. A. Worley, R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. F. A. Worley); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, together with a set of related miniature dress medals, including the Russian Order of St. Stanislaus, and a National Federation of Site Operators award, bronze-gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved, 'To Colonel F. A. Worley, Founder and President', the Great War awards polished thus fine or better, the remainder good very fine

Four: Major R. A. J. Worley, Royal Artillery

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Capt. R. A. J. Worley, R.A.), mounted as worn, together with a set of related miniature dress medals and a Royal Society of St. George membership badge, gilt and enamel, with related card, generally very fine

Five: Captain E. H. Worley, Royal Artillery

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (833972 Gnr. E. W. Worley, R.A.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn, together with a set of related miniature dress medals, extremely fine

Pair: Sergeant M. J. Worley, Auxiliary Territorial Service

Defence and War Medals 1939-45, extremely fine (Lot)

Francis Arthur Worley was born in Dallington, Northamptonshire on 28 July 1889. By 1911 he was serving as Bombardier in 46 Company, Royal Garrison Artillery (R.G.A.), based at Dover Castle. In January 1914 he was serving with 4 Company, R.G.A. based in Sandown, Isle of Wight and he went to France as a Sergeant on 30 May 1915. He subsequently served in 18 Siege Battery, R.G.A. - which was equipped with two 12-inch Railway Guns, prior to being commissioned in the Gunners in June 1916.

In 1919, he served in support of the 'Russian White Army' in the North Russian Expeditionary Force, his battery mounting their 18-pounder guns on Numbers 1, 2 and 3 Armoured Trains. In 1929 in Gibraltar, he became a Captain and Adjutant and he retired from the Army in 1934 to work in the Royal Artillery Records Office, Woolwich. In 1941 he was promoted a War Substantive Major and, in 1942 to Colonel, while still employed at the Records Office. He died in Poole on 3 May 1969.

Reginald Arthur Julian Worley, the son of Colonel Francis Worley, was born at Wern Shropshire on 28 January 1918. In 1932 he enlisted as a boy recruit in the Royal Artillery and was commissioned into the Regiment in January 1942. He was promoted Captain on 6 April 1948 and Major on 6 April 1955. He died in Bognor Regis, Sussex in 1994.

Eric Hayden Worley, second son of Colonel Francis Worley was born in Brading, Isle of Wight on 11 May 1919. In 1933 he joined his brother and became as a boy recruit in the Royal Artillery. In 1941, while serving in the Middle East, he was promoted Bombardier and mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 30 December 1941, refers). He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in January 1944 and gained advancement to the substantive rank of Captain in January 1950; in the previous year, he married at Westminster Cathedral Mary Elizabeth MacSwine, the youngest daughter of the late Maquis and Marchioness of Mashanaglass, Dublin. He died in Dorset on 25 August 1987.

Maureen Julie Francois Worley, daughter of Colonel Francis Worley, was born in 1921 in the Derby District of Lancashire. At the outbreak of war she joined the A.T.S. and was likewise employed as a Sergeant at the war's end; sold with a portrait and one other wartime photograph.


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