Private W.E. SPARKS, 1ST BATTALION DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT. Three: 1914-15 Star (naming erased

THE 1914-15 STAR TRIO WORN BY PRIVATE W.E. SPARKS (SURNAME SPELT SPARKES IN SOME RECORDS), 1ST BATTALION DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT. Three: 1914-15 Star (naming erased), British War and Victory Medals (both medal officially named, impressed in plain block capitals: 6668 PTE. W.E. SPARKS DEVON. R.) . Generally Extremely Fine and undoubtedly as worn, each of the medals having a matching pawnbroker’s mark, on the reverse of the 1914-15 Star, and on the rims of the BWM and Victory Medal.

Group accompanied by 2 Medal Index Cards, one confirming 1914 Star and bar and that 6668 Private William E. Sparkes (note different spelling of surname) first saw service in France and Flanders with the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment, entering that theatre of operations on 1st September 1914 (the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment landed as a unit at Havre on 21st August 1914), the second Medal Index Card confirming British War and Victory Medals to 6668 Private William Sparkes, Devonshire Regiment. Both Medal Index Cards also confirm subsequent service as 01980 Private, Wiltshire Regiment. First Medal Index Card confirms that the replacement 1914-15 Star in this group is for a lost 1914 Star and bar.

The matching pawnbrokers marks on this group of medals indicate that the 1914-15 Star in this group was for a lost original 1914 Star