Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sapper J. E. Cole, M.M., Royal Engineers
1914-15 Star (76464. Spr. J. E. Cole. R.E.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (76464 Spr. J. E. Cole. R.E.) very fine

Pair: Sapper B. J. Kettle, Royal Engineers
1914-15 Star (7646. Spr. B. W. Kettle. R.E.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (7646. Spr. B. J. Kettle. R.E.) heavy edge knocks and wear to VM, which is lacking its suspension ring, fine

Pair: Sergeant B. T. Smith, Royal Engineers
1914-15 Star (2145, Spr. B. T. Smith, R.E.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2143 Sjt. B. T. Smith. R.E.) very fine

Pair: Pioneer F. Wilson, Royal Engineers
British War and Victory Medals (260546 Pnr. F. Wilson. R.E.) very fine and better (8) £100-£140

M.M. London Gazette 6 July 1917.

James Edwin Cole was born in Winchester in 1887 and worked pre-war as a draughtsman for Babcock & Wilson Ltd. Appointed skilled draughtsman in the Royal Engineers 12 January 1915, he served with a cable section in France from 6 May 1915 and was awarded the Military Medal which acting as Paid Lance Corporal. Recalled to depot at Bedford in the spring of 1918, he was demobilised in February 1919.