Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Pair: Driver J. T. Martin, Royal Artilllery
British War and Victory Medals (137069 Dvr. J. T. Martin. R.A.); Memorial Plaque (James Thomas Martin); together with the related miniature awards, nearly extremely fine

Pair: Attributed to Leading Aircraftwoman Dorothy M. Colwell, Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Defence and War Medals 1939-45, unnamed as issued, with ticker tape slips issued to L.A.C.W. No.469956, noting the issue of the 1939-45 War Medal only, in flattened card box of issue, these both later issues, good very fine (5) £120-£160

James Thomas Martin was born in 1890 in Briton Ferry, Glamorganshire. He was the son of James and Harriet Martin of Villiers Street. His father was in business as a fishmonger. He was educated at the Neath County School and afterwards established his own fishmonger business at 20 Villiers Street. He attested for service in 1916 and was posted to France for service in the Royal Field Artillery. He served as a Driver with 11th Brigade, R.F.A, on the Western Front. In January 1919, prior to demobilisation he became a victim of the Spanish Flu. He died on 23 January 1919 and is buried at Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France. His sister Harriet M. Martin, married a Sidney Colwell in 1918.

Sold with a damaged postcard photograph of the recipient, and copied research.

Dorothy Martin Colwell was born in Briton Ferry in 1922, the daughter of Harriet M. Martin and Sidney Colwell. She served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in the Second World War, enlisting sometime after November 1942.