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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 330

Three: Sergeant G. Wardley, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Border Regiment

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (7565 Pte G. Wardley. Border Regt); British War and Victory Medals (7318 Sjt. G. Wardley. R.A.M.C.), good very fine (3)

George Wardley was born at Kendal, Westmoreland on 30 November 1883 and served with the 2nd Volunteer Company which was attached to the 1st Battalion Border Regiment. He is in the 1911 census residing at 14 Lound Street, Kendal working as a Clicker in a Boot Factory.
Confirmed on his MIC for the pair but he also appears as 39834 East Lancashire Regiment. The 1939 Register records him as still being employed as a Clicker in the Boot trade at "K" Shoe Works, and is also an ARP Warden and therefore may be further entitled to a Defence Medal. He died on 7 September 1979, aged 95.

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