LG 1st October 1918 refers:
19802 Pte. T. Fenton, M.M., Bord. R. (Devonport). For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during a raid. He displayed courage and determination in a marked degree in leading his party over most difficult ground, capturing an officer and lending the utmost help to his commanding officer. He has distinguished himself on many occasions.
LG 28th November 1919
505280 Sjt. G. W. Colley, 1st Btn. K.R.R.C. (posted 13th Bn., Lond. R) (Bethnal Green). On the 29th September, 1918, at Flot Farm, he was ordered to lead his platoon to clear an enemy position which was enfilading an important crossing of the St. Quentin Canal. With most marked courage and able leadership he captured the position - viz., 1,000 yards of trench. Although his platoon was only forty strong, he not only drove the enemy out of the position, but captured 103 prisoners, including four officers and , five machine-guns, three field guns and numerous trench mortars and other stores. He did magnificent work.
LG 26th March 1918 refers:
" 27321 Sjt. T. Crump, R.F.A. (Sheffield). For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in charge of two G.S. wagons loaded with material urgently required at the battery position. Though the road was suddenly heavily shelled in front of him he determined to push on. One team was destroyed, but he got through the barrage with the other, and, having unloaded, returned through the barrage, loaded up again, and went forward once more to the battery position. "
London Gazette 13th August 1918
" Lt. Richard Burghley Nunn, R.F.A. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He was in charge of an ammunition dump, which was set on fire by bombs from enemy aircraft. While bombs were still dropping he collected a few men and succeeded in putting out the fire. His prompt action saved a large quantity of ammunition.
DCM : LG 2nd December 1919
' 25322 Spr. B. R. Wright, 122nd Fd. Coy., R.E. (Crosshaven) During the bridging operations at Coutrai on 16th October, 1918, he helped to ferry the infantry across the canal in the first boat, standing all the time under direct machine-gun fire. Whilst so employed he was hit by one of our " P " Grenades, which fell short, and though severely burned he jumped into the river and remained on the enemy side, and later took part in the fighting with the infantry. Throughout his gallantry and devotion to duty were most marked. '

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VARLEY, F.A. L/Cpl. 28362. Cheshire Regiment. British War Medal and Victory Medal.
VENABLES, Robert. Memorial Plaque. (wanted for the family: 4-1685 Corporal Robert James Venables, 4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. KIA, 26th April 1915. )
Vickers, Joseph. Sjt. 19/1126 Northumberland Fusiliers. Military Medal GV, British War Medal, Victory Medal and Memorial Plaque.( 14th Battalion )
VINCENT, David Martin. Pte. 424457  10th London Regiment. British War Medal, Victory Medal & Memorial Plaque.
VOKES..... any medals to this surname.
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WADDELL, Donald Pte. 12586 King's Own Scottish Borderers Victory Medal and Memorial Plaque
Wagstaff,  J.  Pte. L-1887 Royal Fusiliers 1914-15 Star and British War Medal
Walker, R. Pte. 240651 Scottish  Rifles British War Medal and Victory Medal.
WALKER, Sam. Sgt. 20730 Cheshire Regiment. Military Medal GV, British War Medal and Victory Medal ( 16th Battalion )
WALKER, W.D. 2/Lieut British War Medal and Victory Medal.
WALL, John Cpl. 6322 1/Royal Irish Rifles 1914 Star
WALL, William Cpl. 2609 East Kent Regiment Queen's South Africa Medal clasps Relief of Kimberly, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal, South Africa 1901
Walsh, Joseph  5846 Coldstream Guards 1914 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal & Memorial Plaque.
WARCUP, Albert E. 41532 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Victory Medal
WARD, Frederick James. Royal Navy. GV Royal Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal
Ward, George. Pte. 20859 King's Own Scottish Borderers. Victory Medal & Memorial Plaque.
WARD Harold. Pte 47156. West Yorkshire Regiment.  Victory Medal 1914-1919.  (10th Battalion)
Ward, John Henry. Memorial Plaque. Pte 1955 Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
WARE, G. H. Pte. ..... Dorset Regiment. 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
WARREY.......... Any medals to this surname.
Waterhouse, T. Pte 5200 East Kent Regiment Queen's South Africa Medal clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State.
Waters, William Henry. Sjt. SR-3895 Royal Garrison Artillery. Military Medal, Victory Medal and Memorial Plaque (also numbered 278895)
Waterson, William. TSM. 1215 4th Light Dragoons. Crimea and  Turkish Sardinian War Medals,  Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
Watson, F.E. Lieut. Norfolk Regiment. First World War Medals
WATSON, John. Pte. / Sgt.  8222 1st Dragoons 1914 Star and Memorial plaque (Also served  "D" Bty. 11th Bde. Royal Artillery number 59146,  KIA 13/4/18)
WEAVER, J.O.    DJ109132 HMS Cardoc GVI Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal
WEBB, Titus. Pte. 15149 2nd Battalion,  S. Staff R. 1914(-15?) Star, British War Medal,  Victory Medal & Memorial Plaque. ( Titus Webb  -KIA on the Somme, 29th July 1916. - medals wanted by the family)
WELBURN, Herbert Wilfred .... ... Royal Field Artillery. British War Medal and Victory Medal. Also served East Yorkshire Regiment.  (wanted by the family)
WELLBURN. R. NAM. L064653. RN. Campaign Service Medal 1962-2007, Clasp Malay Peninsula
WELSH, Alfred. Cpl. 9119 2/ Cheshire Regiment 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal & Memorial Plaque.
WELSH, James Bell. Pte. G/5177 Middlesex Regiment 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal & Memorial Plaque.
WESTBURY, Christopher Herbert  Memorial Plaque (Gloucestershire Regiment)
WESTWOOD, Robert. Pnr 111509 / Sjt 283680  Royal Engineers Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal (Military Medal = 111509 Spr [A/Sjt], No.7 Army Tramway Coy Royal Engineers )
WHALEY, Stanley Richard. 2/Lt. Essex Regiment. British War Medal and Victory Medal. (9th Battalion)
WHEELER. Edmund Thomas. A.B. 55427 Royal Navy Any medals attributable. (1871-1884)
WHEELER. Edward (or Edmund)*. A.B. 2947 Royal Navy (1840 -1879). Crimea Medal with Sebastopol clasp, LS&GC Medal (RN)
* his naval records show Edward but in census, birth, marriage, death records he was recorded variously as Edmund or Edward.
WHEELER. Henry James. Pte. 11414 Machine Gun Corps British War Medal, Victory Medal & Memorial Plaque. Died Flanders 11/11/1917 (formerly Pte 21062 Hants Rgt).
WHEELER. John Joseph. A.B. to Commissioned Boatswain 91298. Royal Navy LS&GC (RN) and any other medals attributable. (1875 -1897).
WHEELER. Joseph Edmund. Spr. 42901 Royal Engineers. Victory Medal
WHELAN, Abraham. Pte. 301328 Manchester Regiment Any Medals; served WW1, 8th (Ardwicks) Battalion.
WHELAN, P..... 1807 1/Connaught Rangers Queen's South Africa Medal
WHITE, John William, Cpl. 35354 Essex Regiment. British War Medal and Victory Medal. (9th Battalion)
WHITE, J.H.C. Pte. 2433  Gloucestershire Regiment. Military Medal. (1/5th Battalion. Also numbered 240552, White was KIA 16th August 1917.)
WHITE, G. Pte. 242094 King's Own Scottish Borderers 1914 -15 Star
WHITE, Reginald......... Gloucestershire Regiment. Military Medal, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Whiteside, John. Memorial Plaque
Whitworth, A. G. Pte. 508161 Royal Army Medical Corps. 1914 -15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal and Memorial Plaque.
WHITWORTH, Isaac. Pte. 51693 North'd Fus. British War Medal and Victory Medal. also served Royal Fusiliers, No: GS-79561.
wanted by the family.
Wightman, James Pte. 3247 East Kent Regiment Queen's South Africa Medal clasps; Relief of Kimberly, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal and King's South Africa Medal.
WIGGLESWORTH, D. Pte. 4985 Yorkshire Regiment India Medal 1895
WILKINSON, Thomas W. Pte. 2512 2nd Manchester Regiment. Victory Medal
WILKINSON, H........ C/KX 79314 Royal Navy. 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Atlantic Star bar France and Germany, 1939-45 War Medal, Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
Wilkinson. R. Pte. 3040, 1st Cameron Highlanders, Queen's Sudan Medal
WILLIAMS, E. J. Pte. 45057 Cheshire Regiment British War Medal & Victory Medal.
Williams, Henry.  Pte. 8966 4th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regt. 1914-15 Star and Memorial Plaque.
Williams, Sidney Pte 2784 East Kent Regiment India General Service Medal 1854 clasps:  Burma ?, N. E Frontier 1891 ,  (17th Foot); India Medal 1895 clasp Relief of Chitral; King's South Africa Medal
Willetts, W. Pte.  59505  M.G.C. British War Medal
Willows, Alexander. Sgt.  32371 Royal Field Artillery 1914 -15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.  Died 21st May 1915.
WILSON, Albert. Pte. 23867  15th Battalion Notts and Derby Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Wilson, H. A. Captain. Africa General Service Medal, Clasp Nandi 1905-06
Wilson, G. AB. HMS Iris. Crimean Medal
Wilson, J, 19337, Royal Irish Rifles. 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
WILSON, J. Pte. 7958 Connaught Rangers Victory Medal.
Wilson, John Pte 45/574 C&T Corps Egypt Medal 1882- no bar, and Khedive's Star 1882
WILSON, Oswald. Pte. 109279 The King's (Liverpool Regiment) WW1 Medals and Memorial Plaque (4th Battalion)
WILSON, R.H. Pte. 427329 46th Canadian Infantry C.E.F.; Late Royal Highlanders  Queen's South Africa Medal, King's South Africa Medal. (with the Black Watch)  and Victory Medal (CEF)
Willey, Alexander. Cpl. 21/328 Durham Light Infantry British War Medal and Victory
WINTER, W. Gunner. 202818 Royal Field Artillery.  Military Medal GV
Wisby, Christopher. Pte. 53720 Royal Fusiliers / Labour Corps British War Medal and Victory Medal. (34th Battalion, later transferred as 60520 to 101st Coy. Labour Corps.) 
WITHALL, E. L.A.C. 562644 Royal Air Force.

1939-1945 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Indian General Service Medal 1936 with Clasp North West Frontier-1936-1937, RAF Long Service Good Conduct Medal.

WITHALL, G. Sgt/WOII 4268 Yorkshire Regiment 1914-15 Star, British War Medal,Victory Medal and LSGC GV.
WOLFF, C.H. Lieut, Capt, Major Africa General Service Medal, Queen's South Africa Medal, Khedives Sudan Medal 1910, clasp Aliab Dinka, 1914 Star and Victory Medal.
WOOD, F. Pte. 4694 Connaught Rangers 1914  Star
Woodruff, Evelyn. Pte. 179 Notts & Derbyshire Regiment. 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. medals wanted for the family
WOODRUFF, Richard. Memorial Plaque (32523 King's Shropshire Light Infantry)
WOODWARD, M. 88th Regiment Indian Mutiny Medal, clasp Central India
WOODWARD, J. Pte 4588 Cheshire Regiment. British War Medal.
WORDINGHAM......... Any medals to this surname
WREN, Isaac  Pte. 17178  East Yorkshire Regt.
1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. (8th Battalion)
Wright, Albert. Pte 3/1135 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. British War Medal and Memorial Plaque.
WRIGHT, Archibald Memorial Plaque
WRIGHT, Baldwin R. Spr, 25322 R.E. Distinguished Conduct Medal GV, N  British War Medal, and Victory Medal. (also awarded the French Medaille Militaire) medals wanted for the family
WRIGHT, John............Royal Irish. Distinguished Conduct Medal EVIIR
Wright, T.C. Pte. 3585 Royal Irish Fusiliers Queen's South Africa Medal 4 clasps, and the King's South Africa Medal.
WRIGHT, W. Pte. 4529 Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry India Medal 1895 with clasps “Punjab Frontier 1897 – 98” and “Tirah 1897 – 98”  (1st Battalion)
Wyer, Percy. E. Sgt. 5408 Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal & Memorial Plaque (2nd Battalion)
WYNNE, John Thomas Pte........ Lancashire Fusiliers. 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. "Landed Cape Helles 'W' Beach 25th May 1915 Discharged unfit 5 months later with frost bite"
 


 

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