Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private P. Hindley, Liverpool Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (87654 Pte. P. Hindley. L’Ppool. R.) very fine

Pair: Private R. Atkinson, 5th (London Rifle Brigade) Battalion, London Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (5817 Pte. R. Atkinson. 5-Lond. R.) extremely fine

Pair: Lance Corporal T. R. Donaldson, 4th South African Infantry
British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (L/Cpl T. R. Donaldson 4th S.A.I.) very fine

Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Harold Hindley) extremely fine (7) £80-£100

Philip Hindley, a stonemason from Rochdale, Lancashire, attested for the the Royal Engineers on 7 February 1917. He transferred to the King’s (Liverpool) Regiment on 8 September 1917 and entered the Western Front on 13 December 1917, when he transferred back to the Royal Engineers. He was wounded in action on 11 August 1918, returning to the U.K. four days later. He was discharged, no longer fit for service, on 6 January 1920 and awarded Silver War Badge no. B219144.

Sold together with a brass wound stripe, a hallmarked silver religious badge and his Silver War Badge.

Reginald Atkinson attested for service with the 5th (London Rifle Brigade) Battalion, London Regiment, during the Great War. He later transferred to the Royal Sussex Regiment and was discharged due to sickness on 2 May 1919 and awarded Silver War Badge no. B219144.

Sold together with his named box of issue for his medals, an original ‘On War Service 1915’ badge issued to munitions workers and original photographs of the recipient in uniform, and at a military hospital.

Thomas Rattray Donaldson, of Benoni, Transvaal, was taken on strength of the 3rd Brigade South African Expeditionary Force on 1 April 1916. Embarking on H.M.A.C. Armadale Castle in early May 1916 for service in East Africa, he disembarked at Kilindi on 8 May 1916 and was taken on the strength of the 12th South African Infantry on 17 June 1916. He disembarked at Durban on 25 December 1917 and discharged temporarily unfit with malaria and dysentery on recuperative leave from 28 March 1917 to 27 April 1917. He proceeded to France his draft on 11 December 1917, arriving at Rouen two days later. He was wounded by gas poisoning on 22 March 1918, whilst serving with the 1st South African Infantry, and again severely on 28 March 1918 at Trouville. Promoted Lance Corporal on 23 October 1918, he returned to England for return to South Africa and struck off the British Expeditionary Force on 13 March 1919. Disembarking at Cape Town on 22 April 1919, he was discharged on 22 May 1919.

Sold with copy transcript paperwork.