Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal P. W. Moyses, Army Service Corps
British War and Victory Medals (S-33885 Cpl. P. W. Moyses. A.S.C.) very fine

Pair: Private H. J. B. Whittingham, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps
British War and Victory Medals (63444. Pte.1. H. J. B. Whittingham. R.A.F.) good very fine

1914-15 Star (1744 A-Bmbr. F. Coates, R.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (51123 Spr. W. H. Rotherham. R.E.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (3658 Pte. J. Slater. L.N. Lan. R.) generally very fine (lot) £80-£100

Horace John Bertram Whittingham was born in Dudley, Worcestershire, in 1884. A master tailor, he joined the Royal Flying Corps as Air Mechanic 2nd Class on 1 March 1917, and was transferred to the newly-created Royal Air Force as Private 1st Class on 1 April 1918. He served in France from 3 May 1918, spending the majority of his time in the clothing stores at Courban.

Sold with a British Red Cross Society Medal, with top riband bar ‘Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing’ (25593 G. Whitham); a British Red Cross Society Medal, with top riband bar ‘Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid’ (27627 G. L. Whitham); two Silver War Badges, officially numbered ‘C30333’ and ‘B306971’, the second lacking pin catch; two Great War period brass cap badges to the Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery, the second heavily worn; a Primrose League sweetheart brooch, black bakelite; a Bevin Boy Veteran lapel badge, gilt and enamel, in box of issue; a small ‘V’ for Victory badge; and a Freedom of the City of London Certificate to ‘Raymond Wesley Page, Citizen and Spectacle Maker of London’, dated 10 May 1927, in red transmission envelope; together with a pair of contemporary metal-rimmed spectacles, in leather case marked ‘P.A.’, the whole contained in card box of issue by the ‘General Optical Co., 120 Clerkenwell Road, London, E.C.1.’

Raymond Wesley Page invented the military spectacle.