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Four: Private F. Westlake, 4th (Militia) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, later Royal...
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Four: Private F. Westlake, 4th (Militia) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, later Royal Engineers
1914-15 Star (111318 Pnr. F. Westlake. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (111318 Pnr. F. Westlake. R.E); Militia L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (842 Pte. F. Westlake. 4th Devon: Regt. Mil.) polished and worn, good fine and better (4) £400-£500
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Approximately 11 Militia Long Service and Good Conduct Medals awarded to the 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment.
Frederick Westlake was born in Exeter in 1865. In 1881 he is recorded aged 14 as being a Scholar Gardiner residing at the Boys Industrial School, Devon and Exeter (the Victorian reform school for unruly youths). He signed his Militia attestation at Exeter on 6 June 1885 and was posted to the 4th (Militia) Battalion Devonshire Regiment. At the time he was residing at St Mary Steps, Exeter, he proved a diligent militia member attending training regularly from 1885 through to 1899. Embodied at Exeter on 11 May 1899 he served the period of the Boer War at Fort Regent Barracks, Jersey being disembodied at Exeter 16 July 1901. Re-engaged as a Private in the Militia from May 1903 he was awarded his Militia Long Service Medal in February 1905. He was granted a free discharge having served 24 years on 14 December 1909 and at the time residing at Stepcote Hill, a notoriously poor district of Exeter (two contemporary photographic postcard images included).
Attesting again for the duration of the War for the Royal Engineers on 10 August 1915, Westlake was posted as Pioneer to the 2nd Labour Battalion and embarked for France on 22 August 1915 joining the 3rd Provisional Company RE the following day. Admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley he was discharged ‘Being no longer physically fit for War Service’ on 17 March 1916. He died in Exeter on 17 September 1954, aged 89.
Sold with copied service records and other research.
1914-15 Star (111318 Pnr. F. Westlake. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (111318 Pnr. F. Westlake. R.E); Militia L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (842 Pte. F. Westlake. 4th Devon: Regt. Mil.) polished and worn, good fine and better (4) £400-£500
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Approximately 11 Militia Long Service and Good Conduct Medals awarded to the 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment.
Frederick Westlake was born in Exeter in 1865. In 1881 he is recorded aged 14 as being a Scholar Gardiner residing at the Boys Industrial School, Devon and Exeter (the Victorian reform school for unruly youths). He signed his Militia attestation at Exeter on 6 June 1885 and was posted to the 4th (Militia) Battalion Devonshire Regiment. At the time he was residing at St Mary Steps, Exeter, he proved a diligent militia member attending training regularly from 1885 through to 1899. Embodied at Exeter on 11 May 1899 he served the period of the Boer War at Fort Regent Barracks, Jersey being disembodied at Exeter 16 July 1901. Re-engaged as a Private in the Militia from May 1903 he was awarded his Militia Long Service Medal in February 1905. He was granted a free discharge having served 24 years on 14 December 1909 and at the time residing at Stepcote Hill, a notoriously poor district of Exeter (two contemporary photographic postcard images included).
Attesting again for the duration of the War for the Royal Engineers on 10 August 1915, Westlake was posted as Pioneer to the 2nd Labour Battalion and embarked for France on 22 August 1915 joining the 3rd Provisional Company RE the following day. Admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley he was discharged ‘Being no longer physically fit for War Service’ on 17 March 1916. He died in Exeter on 17 September 1954, aged 89.
Sold with copied service records and other research.
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Four: Private F. Westlake, 4th (Militia) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, later Royal Engineers
1914-15 Star (111318 Pnr. F. Westlake. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (111318 Pnr. F. Westlake. R.E); Militia L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (842 Pte. F. Westlake. 4th Devon: Regt. Mil.) polished and worn, good fine and better (4) £400-£500
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Approximately 11 Militia Long Service and Good Conduct Medals awarded to the 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment.
Frederick Westlake was born in Exeter in 1865. In 1881 he is recorded aged 14 as being a Scholar Gardiner residing at the Boys Industrial School, Devon and Exeter (the Victorian reform school for unruly youths). He signed his Militia attestation at Exeter on 6 June 1885 and was posted to the 4th (Militia) Battalion Devonshire Regiment. At the time he was residing at St Mary Steps, Exeter, he proved a diligent militia member attending training regularly from 1885 through to 1899. Embodied at Exeter on 11 May 1899 he served the period of the Boer War at Fort Regent Barracks, Jersey being disembodied at Exeter 16 July 1901. Re-engaged as a Private in the Militia from May 1903 he was awarded his Militia Long Service Medal in February 1905. He was granted a free discharge having served 24 years on 14 December 1909 and at the time residing at Stepcote Hill, a notoriously poor district of Exeter (two contemporary photographic postcard images included).
Attesting again for the duration of the War for the Royal Engineers on 10 August 1915, Westlake was posted as Pioneer to the 2nd Labour Battalion and embarked for France on 22 August 1915 joining the 3rd Provisional Company RE the following day. Admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley he was discharged ‘Being no longer physically fit for War Service’ on 17 March 1916. He died in Exeter on 17 September 1954, aged 89.
Sold with copied service records and other research.
1914-15 Star (111318 Pnr. F. Westlake. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (111318 Pnr. F. Westlake. R.E); Militia L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (842 Pte. F. Westlake. 4th Devon: Regt. Mil.) polished and worn, good fine and better (4) £400-£500
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Approximately 11 Militia Long Service and Good Conduct Medals awarded to the 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment.
Frederick Westlake was born in Exeter in 1865. In 1881 he is recorded aged 14 as being a Scholar Gardiner residing at the Boys Industrial School, Devon and Exeter (the Victorian reform school for unruly youths). He signed his Militia attestation at Exeter on 6 June 1885 and was posted to the 4th (Militia) Battalion Devonshire Regiment. At the time he was residing at St Mary Steps, Exeter, he proved a diligent militia member attending training regularly from 1885 through to 1899. Embodied at Exeter on 11 May 1899 he served the period of the Boer War at Fort Regent Barracks, Jersey being disembodied at Exeter 16 July 1901. Re-engaged as a Private in the Militia from May 1903 he was awarded his Militia Long Service Medal in February 1905. He was granted a free discharge having served 24 years on 14 December 1909 and at the time residing at Stepcote Hill, a notoriously poor district of Exeter (two contemporary photographic postcard images included).
Attesting again for the duration of the War for the Royal Engineers on 10 August 1915, Westlake was posted as Pioneer to the 2nd Labour Battalion and embarked for France on 22 August 1915 joining the 3rd Provisional Company RE the following day. Admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley he was discharged ‘Being no longer physically fit for War Service’ on 17 March 1916. He died in Exeter on 17 September 1954, aged 89.
Sold with copied service records and other research.
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