Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant A. H. Ayre, Royal Field Artillery

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (67939 Corpl. A. H. Ayre. 57th. Fd. By: R.A.); 1914-15 Star (51225 B.Q.M. Sjt. A. H. Ayre: R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (51225 B.Q.M. Sjt. A. H. Ayre. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (67939 Sjt: A. H. Ayre. R.F.A.) very fine and better (5) £160-£200

Albert Hight Ayre was born in the Parish of Houghton, Huntingdon, in 1870. He attested for the Royal Field Artillery in 1888 and is recorded in his Army Service Record as suffering a wound to the face due to an ‘explosion’ on 29 March 1904. Awarded the L.S.G.C. Medal in July 1906, he was discharged from the Colours at his own request in 1913 and took brief civilian employment as publican of the ‘Black Boy’ Inn near Marlow. Volunteering his services once again at the outbreak of the Great War, he served as B.Q.M.S. in France from 21 May 1915 to 23 August 1916, before returning home to England and seeing out the war attached to a variety of Reserve Batteries - likely engaged in training new recruits.