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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 96

Seven: Regimental Quarter-Master Sergeant J.A. Wilde, York and Lancaster Regiment British War and Victory Medals (9813 A.Sjt. J.A. Wilde. Y.&L. R.); General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., one clasp, N.W. Persia (4736290 Sjt. J.A. Wilde. Y.&L. R.); Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935; Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ´Field Marshal´s bust´ type (4736290 C.Q.M.Sjt. J.A. Wilde. Y.&L. R.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd ´Fid: Def:´ type (4736290 W.O. Cl.2 J.A. Wilde. Y.&L. R.), the Great War awards nearly very fine, the rest good very fine or better, together with various regimental cap badges and buttons, and the following official documents &c.: - The recipient´s Warrant, named to James Arthur Wilde, and dated 26.6.1929 - Home Office enclosure for the Defence Medal - Buckingham Palace Certificate for the award of the Jubilee Medal, named to No. 4736290 Regimental Quartermaster-Serjeant James Arthur Wilde, 1st Bn, The York and Lancaster Regiment, in glazed frame - The recipient´s First Class Certificate of Education, dated 11.2.1913, and Second Class Certificate of Education, dated 29.9.1910 - Four Army Schools certificates, dated over the period 27.9.1906-7.5.1910 - The recipient´s Army Temperance Association Certificate of Merit, dated 21.4.1910 - Copy of the recipient´s Service History - Two Aldershot Command Rifle Meeting prize medals, one silver, one bronze, both in cases of issue - Two Masonic jewels, both named to ´Bro. J.A. Wilde´ - A large quantity of group and individual photographs (7) Estimate £ 240-280 4736290 Regimental Quarter-Master Sergeant James Arthur Wilde, born July 1896; enlisted as a Boy in the 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, 8.8.1910; Private, 28.7.1914; appointed Acting Sergeant, 22.12.1915; serves with the 3rd Battalion on the Western Front from 5.12.1917 (wounded with a fractured thumb, 25.7.1918); serves with the Regiment in Mesopotamia from 19.9.1919 and present throughout the North West Persia Campaign, 10.8-31.12.1920; Sergeant, 1.5.1920; serves with the Regiment in India from 13.11.1921; Company Quarter-Master Sergeant, 10.8.1922; retires 27.7.1935 after 21 years with the Colours; awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, 6.5.1952.

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