Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private W. de J. Brett, Royal Irish Regiment, later Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Guernsey Light Infantry, and Hampshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (3170 Pte. W. D. J. Brett. R. Ir. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (3170 Pte. W. D. J. Brett. R. Ir. Regt.); Service Medal of the Order of St John (2412. W. Brett. S. Africa. S.J.A.B.O. 1937.) in Lamb & Co., London, fitted case of issue; together with the recipient’s St. John Ambulance Association Re-examination Cross, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘322045 William Brett’, with ten date bars for the years 1928 to 1937 inclusive, the reverses of each all engraved ‘322045’, very fine (5) £60-£80

William de Jersey Brett attested for the Royal Irish Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 December 1915, subsequently transferring to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; the 1st Battalion, Guernsey Light Infantry; and finally the Hampshire Regiment.

Sold with the recipient’s two card identity discs ‘W Brett 3170 CE RIR’; and a perspex-covered riband bar for the Great War trio.