Edward VII Volunteer Long Service Medal to the Hampshire Royal Garrison Artillery Volunteers, EVII issue, impressed naming ‘3383 GNR: W. HANNAM. 2 HANTS: R.G.A.V.’ Medal confirmed in Army Order 1st January 1909. Late Rod Flood collection

An Interesting Great War Medical Services 1914 Star Medal Group of Four Including a Greek Order of the Redeemer to an Officer who Post War, Went on to Become the Coroner of the Eastern District of London, 1914 Star medal, ‘W.R.H. HEDDY B.R.C.S. & O.ST.J.J.’, British War and Victory medals with M.I.D. emblem on the ribbon of the Victory medal, ‘CAPT. W.R.H. HEDDY’, Kingdom of Greece, Order of the Redeemer, 2nd type, Knight’s breast badge in Pomonis, Athens fitted case of issue. Accompanied by mounted group of miniature medals consisting, 1914 star with August-November clasp, British War and Victory medals with M.I.D. emblem, Greek Order of the Redeemer and the Greek medal for the Greco-Turkish War of 1912-13.Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 10th July 1919.We have not been able to confirm the award of the Order of the Redeemer in the London Gazette, but this is not unusual. William Reginald Huleatt Heddy was born in London on 30th December 1890, his father William Senior being a surgical physician. William followed in his fathers’ footsteps attending Dover College in 1906and in 1908 he entered Middlesex Hospital to study medicine becoming an anaesthetist in 1911. In January 1914 he received his medical diploma of L.R.C.P. and a month later gained his surgical diploma of M.R.C.S.On the outbreak of war in August 1914 William served as a Medical Officer with the British Red Cross in the Lille Mobile Unit landing in France ion 25th October 1914. Commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps in July 1915 with the 1st London (City of London) Field Ambulance, he was promoted to Captain in January 1916. In 1918 he wrote an article for the journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps entitled ‘Anaesthetics in the Field’ based on his war time experiences. He resigned his Commission in July 1920 and went on to serve as a coroner. On 25th January 1934 he was appointed Assistant Deputy Coroner, in 1938 he was Deputy Coroner for St. Pancras and 2 years later he was appointed Coroner of the Eastern District of London. In this roll he was present at the autopsy of Josef Jakobs, a German spy who has the dubious honour of being the last person to be executed in the Tower of London.William retired in March 1956 and died in March 1972 in Ealing, London.It is interesting to note that his son, Brian Huleatt Heddy, born in 1916, served in the SOE during the Second World War and at one point was the Consul for the States of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.

A Good Great War Western Front Military Medal and Second Award Bar Group of Four to the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, Military medal, GV, with second award bar,’10883 CPL. T.J. MUNDY 1/K.R.RIF: C.’, 1914 Star medal with original August-November clasp, ‘10883PTE. T.J. MUNDAY 2/K.R.RIF: C.’, British War and Victory medals, ‘10883 CPL. T.J. MUNDAY K.R.RIF. C.’ Note differences in spelling of surname. With some original documents, including 3rd Class Army Council Certificate of Education, 29th October 1913, Slough branch of The Old Contemptibles Association membership documents (x2), 2nd Divisional gallantry cards (x2) dated 1918 with what appears to be the citations for the Military medal and bar (these in poor condition with considerable edge loss and tearing), ‘on his gallantry on 23rd March 1918 in bringing in wounded under heavy artillery, machine gun and rifle fire’ and ‘On his dash and fearlessness in a raid on the enemy outpost line near Ayette on August 14th, 1918’. Character Certificate, 10th February 1920, Discharge Certificate, 12th January 1929, Original studio photograph of the recipient and an Army friend with a ‘touched up’ enlarged modern copy of the same photograph.Military medal, London Gazette 16th July 1918 – 10883 Cpl. T. J. Mundy, K.R.R.C. (Middlesex)Bar to the Military medal, London Gazette 11th February 1919 – 10883 Cpl. T. J. Munday, M.M., 1st Bn., K.R.R.C. (Wandsworth, S.W.)Born in 1894, Thomas Jackson Munday enlisted into the King Royal Rifle Corps on 13th January 1913, he served in France from 13th August 1914, the issue of the clasp for the 1914 star is confirmed on his Medal Index Card. He was discharged on 12th January 1929 and his Discharge Certificate indicates that he attested for the Royal Air Force in November 1942.164 Military medals and 16 first bars were awarded to the 1st Kings Royal Rifle Corps during the Great War.