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Auction: 22002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 89

Three: Sergeant W. W. Wills, Middlesex Regiment, East Lancashire Regiment, Chinese Labour Corps and latterly Captain, 21st (Eastbourne) Battalion, Home Guard

British War and Victory Medals (235434 Sjt. W. W. Wills. E. Lan. R.); Defence Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn, very fine, together with six Eton College School Regular Attendance Medals (Lot)

Walter Wellington Wills was born on 5 August 1886 at Maidstone Kent and before the outbreak of the Great War was on the Teaching Staff of the London County Council. He joined the 9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment on 26 September 1914 as a Sergeant-Instructor and was a distinguished marksman. Made Acting Company Sergeant-Major in January 1916, he was transferred to the East Lancashire Regiment and served with them as a Sergeant in France from September 1917. Wills joined the Base Camp of the Chinese Labour Corps at Noyelles on 21 February 1918.

In 1926 Wills was Headmaster of the Willingdon Church of England School, Eastbourne. By the outbreak of the Second World War he was a Schoolmaster living in Hailsham, Sussex and he was made Captain in the 21st (Eastbourne) Battalion, Home Guard on 30 June 1943. Wills died at home at The Paragon, Wannock Lane, Hailsham on 2 April 1967; sold together with his original marksmanship certificate and much copied research.

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Sold for
£70

Starting price
£50