Five Medal groups, viz.: three medal to Archibald N. Crofts, Royal Navy: British War Medal 1914-20

Five Medal groups, viz.: three medal to Archibald N. Crofts, Royal Navy: British War Medal 1914-20 (J. 64966 A.N. CROFTS. A.B. R.N.), good very fine; Mercantile Marine War Medal (ARCHIBALD N. CROFTS), good very fine; Victory Medal (J. 64966 A.N. CROFTS. A.B. R.N.), light corrosion to edges, otherwise good very fine; three medals to Corporal William Baker, Imperial Yeomanry and Army Service Corps: Queen's South Africa, 2nd type reverse, 5 clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State,
Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (34447 PTE W. BAKER. 95TH COY IMP: YEO:), impressed; British War Medal 1914-20, Victory Medal (M2 - 131997 A. CPL. W. BAKER. A.S.C.), all good very fine or better; a Great War trio to Lieutenant Sidney England Charlton, Honourable Artillery Company, 18th London Regiment and Machine Gun Corps: 1914 Star, with good tailor's copy clasp (662 PTE. S.E. CHARLTON. H.A.C.), British War Medal 1914-20 and Victory Medal (LIEUT. S.E. CHARLTON), later mounted on modern ribbons, very fine or better; and a Great War trio to Lance Corporal Harry Nieuwoudt, South African Irish Regiment and 4th South African Infantry: 1914-15 Star (PTE H. NIEUWOUDT S.A. IRISH RGT.); British War Medal 1914-20 (L/CPL H. NIEUWOUDT. 4TH S.A.I.); Victory Medal, bilingual reverse (PTE H. NIEUWOUDT. 4TH S.A.I.); very fine or better. [qty]

The Paul Morrissey Collection

William Baker was born St Martins, London, in 1872, and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry in March 1901, having previously served in the 3rd Volunteer Battalion Royal
Fusiliers. He served with the 95th Company (Metropolitan Mounted Rifles), and was discharged at Shorncliffe, as medically unfit, in April 1902. He married Myra Emma, a
widow, in 1906, and together they had two children. He re-enlisted in the Army Service Corps in October 1915; Sidney Charlton was born in Epsom 12/02/1893. Attested for the H.A.C. 18/09/1911 and, being mobilized on the outbreak of war, entered France with the 1st Battalion in September 1914. His battalion was under fire in the period from late September until 27/11/1914; and it seems certain that he was entitled to a clasp for his 1914 Star, though he does not appear to have applied for it officially. He was discharged to a commission in the 3rd/18th Battalion London Regiment (London Irish Rifles) 06/06/1915; Harry Nieuwoudt served on the Western Front, suffering various wounds. Repeatedly subject to disciplinary measures for such infractions as being "unshaven at 11. a.m.", and "Using threatening language to his superior officers."