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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 255

Five: Private W. R. Williams, Royal Berkshire Regiment, later Caernarvonshire Constabulary

1914-15 Star (12630 Pte. W. R. Williams. R. Berks. R.); British War and Victory Medals (12630 Pte. W. R. Williams. R. Berks. R.); Royal Society for the Protection of Animal's Silver Medal, For Humanity in Animal Life Saving (P.C. W. R. Williams. Caernarvonshire Constabulary. 1930.); Our Dumb Friends League, Bronze Medal (P.C. W. R. Williams. For the courageous rescue of a Sheep from a quarry. January 1930), good very fine, the last two in their cases of issue (5)

William Richard Williams was born in 1892 at Macchynleth, Montgomery. He enlisted on 3 September 1914, a collier by trade. Williams served in France with the 6th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment from 25 July 1915-16 May 1916, thence joining the Army Reserve from 22 November 1916-4 September 1917. Williams was admitted to the 55th Field Ambulance in April 1916 and was returned home due bronchitis. He was discharged physically unfit on 4 September 1917 and latterly served in the Caernarvonshire Constabulary.


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