A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant W. E. Rudlin, Grenadier Guards and Guards Machine Gun Company, later Constable, British Transport Police

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (14597 Sjt: W. E. Rudlin. 4/G. Gds.); 1914 Star, with clasp (14597. Pte. W. E. Rudlin. 1/G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (14597 Sjt. W. E. Rudlin. G. Gds.); Defence Medal (Const. William E. Rudlin.) contemporarily engraved naming; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Const. William E. Rudlin.) generally good very fine (6) £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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D.C.M. London Gazette 13 February 1917:
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has displayed great courage and skill throughout in fighting his machine gun, and has at all times set a splendid example to his men.’

William Ernest Rudlin was born in Colchester, Essex, in 1891 and attested there for the Grenadier Guards on 19 January 1910, serving with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 October 1914. Transferring to the 4th Battalion in the ran of Lance-Corporal on 19 July 1915, he was promoted Corporal on 14 October 1915, and Sergeant on 18 January 1916, and was awarded his Distinguished Conduct Medal whilst attached to the Guards Machine Gun Company. He was appointed Company Quartermaster Sergeant on 20 June 1919, and was discharged on the reduction of the Guards Machine Gun Regiment on 29 August 1919, after 9 years and 223 days’ service. He was subsequently employed as a Railway Policeman with the British Transport Police, and died in Rochford, Essex, on 11 February 1965.

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