Orders, Decorations and Medals

Ten: Colonel W. L. A. Fedden, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, late Royal Flying Corps

1914-15 Star (1531 2-A.M., R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (Major, I.A.S.C.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Major, R.I.A.S.C.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals; Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 5th class breast badge with swords, some enamel damage to the last, otherwise generally very fine and better (10) £200-250

William Leslie Agnew Fedden was born at Keynsham, Somerset, on 11 July 1891, and joined the Royal Flying Corps as 1st Air Mechanic at the outbreak of the War. He was granted a temporary commission in the Army Service Corps in April 1915 and proceeded to France as a Workshops Officer with the 4th Bridging Train, 36 M.T. Company, on 13 August 1915, serving there until invalided home in September 1916. He served in Salonika and Serbia from August 1917 until November 1919, when he was demobilized. The award of the Serbian Order of the White Eagle was announced in the London Gazette on 24 February 1920. Fedden re-joined the army with a permanent commission in the Royal Army Service Corps in September 1920, and transferred to the Royal Indian Army Service Corps in January 1928. He was promoted Temporary Colonel and Commandant of the 6th Independant Base Workshops on 22 November 1944, and was released from the army in May 1947. Sold with full service record.