Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2) (92436 Sth: Q.M. Sjt: D. Dempsey. R.G.A.; 16489 Musician J. Walbey. R.G.A.) contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £60-£80

Daniel Dempsey served with the Royal Garrison Artillery as Smith Quartermaster Sergeant and was discharged at Portsmouth on 29 August 1913. His reference was impressive: ‘Exemplary. No offence in whole service of 21 years, thoroughly sober and reliable, painstaking and industrious’.

James Walbey was born in Bethnal Green in 1872 and originally attested for the King’s Royal Rifles at Winchester on 18 February 1892. Present at the Relief of Ladysmith during the Boer War, he later served as Musician with the South Eastern Coast Defences R.G.A. Band, before being discharged at Dover on 15 February 1913.