Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Sergeant W. H. Hales, South Wales Borderers
1914-15 Star (15773 Pte. W. H. Hales. S. Wales Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (15773 Sjt. W. H. Hales S.Wales Bord.) with remnants of original OHMS transmission envelope, addressed to ‘Mr. W. H. Hales, 36 Mary Street, Seven Sisters, Neath’, edge bruise to BWM otherwise nearly extremely fine

Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Ldg. Fireman William H. Hales) good very fine

Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Jewels (2), the first gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Bro. William H. Hales Richmond Lodge No. 7270 Exalted 27.11.45.’, with top riband bar engraved ‘1st Dec. 31.3.36’ and suspension bar engraved ‘2nd Dec. 18.4.40’; the second silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented to Bro. William H. Hales C.P. by the Richmond Lodge No.7270 Raised on the 18 Apl. 1940’, with top riband bar inscribed ‘Primo’ and suspension bar engraved ‘Richmond Lodge No.7270’; together with a R.A.O.B. lapel badge, good very fine (6) £70-£90

15572 Sergeant William Henry Hales was born at Newtown, Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. He was by trade a collier for the Evans and Bevan colliery company, and was residing at Seven Sisters, Neath when he enlisted into the South Wales Borderers on 3 September 1914. He served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from September to November 1915, and subsequently in Salonika, and was promoted Sergeant in January 1918. He was invalided with bronchial pneumonia, malaria and other debilities in December 1918, and was discharged to the Army Reserve in February 1919. He died at Seven Sisters in 1945.

Leading Fireman William Henry Hales, the son of the above, was born at Seven Sisters, Neath, on 20 April 1914 and appears as a milkman in the 1939 Register. He died in 1987.

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