Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance-Corporal J. H. Bash, South Staffordshire Regiment
1914-15 Star (8649 Pte. J. H. Bash. S. Staff: R.); British War and Victory Medals (8649 Pte. J. H. Bash. S. Staff. R.); together with a Royal and Ancient Order of Buffaloes Medal, silver and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented to Bro. John Hy. Bash, raised to 2nd. Deg. Mar. 15th. 1920’, with integral top ‘Brockmoor Lge 2365’, enamel damage to last, nearly very fine

Pair: Corporal T. Whitehouse, South Staffordshire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (14692 Cpl. T. Whitehouse. S. Staff. R.) extremely fine

Four: Corporal F. A. Quartermain, North Staffordshire Regiment
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (203613 Pte. E. H. Smallman. N. Staff. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (203567 Pte. W. Ogle. S. Staff. R.) first nearly extremely fine, second with edge bruising, therefore very fine (12) £70-90

John Henry Bash was born in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, in 1895, and served during the Great War with the 1st/5th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment on the Western Front from 5 March 1915. Promoted Lance-Corporal, he was demobilised on 15 February 1919.

Thomas Whitehouse served during the Great War with the 9th (Pioneer) Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment on the Western Front from 24 August 1915 (additionally entitled to a 1914-15 Star). Promoted Corporal, he was transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 1 March 1919.

Frederick A. Quartermain was born on 8 May 1923 and attested for the North Staffordshire Regiment on 21 May 1937. He served with them throughout the Second World War in India, and from January 1943 he was an Assistant on the rivers of East Bengal, running airfield supplies with a large fleet of tugs and country boats, crewed in the main by native boatmen. Post-War, he served on attachment to the Green Howards as an Orderly Room Clerk in North-West Europe from 31 January 1946 to 11 September 1947, before returning to the North Staffordshire Regiment, at home, on 15 November 1948. He transferred to Section ‘B’ Reserve on 9 May 1950, after 12 years and 353 days’ service. He died in Dover, Kent, in April 2005.

Sold with the recipient’s Record of Service and Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve; four letters, two being Testimonial letters; and two group photographic images both taken in Calcutta and both featuring the recipient.

Ernest Hazrey Smallman attested for the North Staffordshire Regiment on 11 December 1915 and served during the Great War with the 2nd/6th Battalion. He was discharged on 12 September 1919, and received a Silver War Badge.

Sold with a white metal ‘Our Empire Prince’ Medal, the Prince of Wales on the obverse, and bearing the date 24 May 1927, the reverse inscribed ‘For God, King, and Empire’.

Walter Ogle was born in Nottingham and attested there for the South Staffordshire Regiment. He served during the Great War with the 4th (Special Reserve) Battalion on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 10 April 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.