Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. Hill, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
1914-15 Star (1082 Pte. J. Hill, R. War. R.); British War and Victory Medals (267111 Pte. J. Hill. R. War. R.) nearly very fine

Pair: Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant T. Dawdry, 11th Hussars, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 22 March 1918
British War and Victory Medals (5716 Sq. Q.M. Sjt. T. Dawdry. 11-Hrs.) minor edge bruise to VM, otherwise nearly extremely fine

Pair: Attributed to Miss M. Mitchell
Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Defence Council enclosure, in OHMS card box of issue addressed to ‘Miss M. Mitchell, 43 Coronation Road, Crosby, Liverpool’, both later issues, extremely fine

1914-15 Star (3) (56306 Pnr. S. Virgin. R.E.; 6445 Sjt. G. W. Leach. Lan. Fus.; 436041 Pte. H. A. Hussey. 4/Can: Inf:); Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (Capt. T. Brodie.; Lieut. R. C. Davidson.; 9608. Pte. G. W. Houghton. 11-Hrs.) generally very fine and better (13) £140-£180

J. Hill attested for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 March 1915.

Thomas Dawdry was born in Southwark, London, in 1885 and attested for the 11th Hussars at Stratford, Essex. He served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 August 1915, and died of wounds on 22 March 1918. He is buried in Roye New British Cemetery, France.

Henry Aloysius Hussey was born in Kensington, London, on 27 July 1872 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. He served with the 4th Battalion Canadian Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 13 June 1916. A letter of condolence written to his family by a captain in his unit stated:
‘It was before daybreak on 13 June that my company was ordered to advance and take and consolidate the enemy’s front line. Private Hussey came through the barrage of artillery fire safely, and was consolidating the taken position with three other men in a small section of trench, when all four were killed by a large shell which landed amongst them.’
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Thomas Brodie, a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, served during the Great War with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from 19 June 1917.

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