Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant G. Wear, 2nd Dragoon Guards, late Essex Yeomanry

1914-15 Star (1064 Pte., Essex Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut.); Russia, St. George Cross for Bravery, 4th Class, silver, reverse numbered, ‘127307’, good very fine (4) £500-550

M.I.D. London Gazette 20 May 1918.

Russia, St. George Cross for Bravery, 4th Class London Gazette 25 August 1915.

Private Geoffry Wear, Essex Yeomanry, entered France on 30 November 1914. For his services he was awarded the Russian St. George Cross for Bravery 4th Class. He was discharged to a commission in the Essex Yeomanry on 29 March 1916. Later attached to the 2nd Dragoon Guards and mentioned in despatches. Post-war he lived at Rivers Hall, Baxted, Essex. With copied m.i.c. and other research.