A Military Medal Group To Corporal/Temporary Sergeant (Sapper) F.e. Warner, 55Th Company, Royal Engineers

Military Medal (20385 Cpl F.E. WARNER. 55 / Coy R.E.); 1914 Star (20385 SAPR: F.E. WARNER. R.E.); British War Medal (20385 T. SJT. F.E. WARNER. R.E.); and Victory Medal (20385 T. SJT. F.E. WARNER. R.E.). Naming is officially impressed. Un-mounted, edge nicks on the MM, scattered wear on the reverse of the Star, light contact, better than very fine. Accompanied by his Discharge Certificate (printed in black ink on a thick pressed white paper stock, with entries in handwritten black ink, 121 mm x 164 mm, horizontal fold mark); and enclosed in a Royal Engineers Certificate Folder (red linen exterior, off-white paper interior, three panels with two securing panels, Royal Engineers insignia on the cover, marked on the inside flap "WARNING - If you lose the enclosed Certificate a duplicate cannot be issued. You should, therefore, on no account part with it.", marked on the outside panel "Any Person finding this book, unless it can at once be restored to the Owner, should place it in a Post Office Letter Box for return to:- THE SECRETARY, WAR OFFICE, LONDON, S.W.", 115 mm x 152 mm, snap closure).

Footnote: Frederick Edward Warner was born in 1890 and was a bricklayer by trade. He was discharged from service with the Royal Engineers on August 11, 1910 at the age of 20. Four years later, he was called up for service as a Corporal (20385) in the First World War in 1914. He was initially stationed at Goring Heath and later served in France as a Sapper with the Royal Engineers. Warner was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field, the announcement appearing in the Fourth Supplement to the London Gazette 30797 of Friday, July 12, 1918, on Tuesday, July 16, 1918, page 8330. He finished the war in the rank of Sergeant and was discharged from war service on March 3, 1919 but re-enlisted with the Royal Engineers the same day at Chatham. For his First World War service, Warner was awarded the 1914 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.