Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private A. Whitear, West Riding Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (8614 Pte., 1/W. Rid. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (8614 Pte., W. Rid. R.); British War and Victory Medals (8614 Pte., W. Rid. R.), with riband bar

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed, good very fine and better (7) £1000-1200

D.C.M. London Gazette 3 June 1915. ‘For gallant conduct in voluntarily assisting in the removal of the wounded from the advanced dressing station at Rue des Berecaux on 17th March, 1915, whilst under fire’.

Private Alfred Whitear, 1st Battalion West Riding Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 29 August 1914. Sold with copied research.

Second War medals in card forwarding box addressd to ‘Mr A. Whitear, 10 Acuba Rd., (Flat 1), Southfields, SW18’, with forwarding slip.