Four: Lieutenant A. E. H. D. Woollard, Army Service Corps

1914-15 Star (Lieut. A. E. H. D. Woollard) renamed; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 5th type, silver (Lieut. A. Deschamps Woollard, A.S.C. Guines Nov. 13th 1915) with silver buckle on ribbon, good very fine and better (4) £280-320

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine Collection of Life Saving Awards.

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Aubrey Ernest Herbert Deschamps Woollard was born on 26 August 1884 and was educated at Wimborne, Paris and Shrewsbury, and was later employed as an Engineer living in New Zealand and Australia. In his service papers he stated he had served as a ranker in the 137th Battery R.F.A. during the Boer War; followed by seven years as a Trooper in the Legion of Frontiersmen. In September 1914 he stated he had enlisted and served with the 1st Australian Expeditionary Force. Being commissioned into A.S.C. in May 1915, he arrived in France on 30 June 1915 - 1914-15 Star confirmed.

On 13 November 1915 Lieutenant Woollard, A.S.C. and Lance-Corporal Albert C. Bird, A.S.C. performed a rescue which resulted in them being awarded the Society’s Silver Medal (Case No. 15,630) - both were recommended, unsuccessfully, for an Albert Medal.

‘On 13th November 1915, a French Fireman was saved from a fire in Guines, France, cause of the fire was unknown. (Ref. Saved from the Flames, by Roger Willoughby & John Wilson). With a number of copied service papers, together with m.i.c. and extracted Society records.