Description
A Family Group to 2 Berkshire Brothers, Alfred and Arthur Midwinter, Grenadier Guards in Sudan and his Little Brother Berkshire Regiment in the Boer War and WW1.
Older Brother:
Sudan Medal 1898, officially engraved, Khedive’s Sudan, bar Khartoum, named in usual depot impressed style seen to the regiment, 6309 Private Arthur Midwinter, Grenadier Guards.
Arthur served for only a short time but the severe difficulties experience in the Sudan Campaign led to an immediate medical discharge on full disability after the war.
Arthur was born in Steventon, Abingdon, Berkshire, circa 1878.
He attested for service with the Grenadier Guards on 29th January 1897 at Reading, aged 19 having been a Farm Labourer.
Saw the following service:
Home, 29th January 1897 – 27th September 1897
Gibraltar, 28th September 1897 – 18th July 1898
Egypt, 19th July 1898 – 7th October 1898
Home, 8th October 1898 – 14th July 1899.
Upon returning home he was assessed and found to be suffering from Tubercle of the Lung, he stated a sister had died of a similar ailment.
It was found in the investigation that the constitutional tendency had been aggravated from the “Recent campaign in Egypt where he served.”
He was found permanently unfit and discharged on 14th July 1899.
His younger brother Alfred Born circa 1879.
Queen’s South Africa Medal, 3 bars, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, King’s South Africa Medal, 2 bars, 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medal Trio, 10441 Private Alfred Midwinter, Berkshire Regiment.
4818 2nd Battalion Berkshire Regiment on QSA, KSA Pair, and 10441 Pte in the Berkshire Regiment on Trio.
Alfred had first joined the 4th Battalion Oxford Light Infantry Militia aged 17 years 11 months on 8th December 1896.
Shortly after turning 18, having served for 49 days he joined the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 29th January 1897.
Served throughout the Boer War with 2nd Bn Berkshire Regiment, entitlement to QSA KSA Pair and claps confirmed on the medal roll.
His WW1 service papers from his 1914 re-enlistment to fight in WW1 record that he received a “Gun Shot Wound to Buttock in Action, 28th February 1915”
When he was wounded he was serving with C Company, 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment.
As a former Veteran it did not take him long to re-enlist in 1914, joining up on 5th October 1914,
Saw Service at Home from 5th October 1914 until 26th December 1914.
Then in France from 27th December 1914 until 3rd March 1915, at which time he had been invalided home from wounds. (Slightly too late to earn a 1914 star)
Served at Home from 4th March 1915 until 10th February 1916.
Served in India from 11th February 1916 until 17th June 1919.
Discharged t home on 15th July 1919.
Discharged as 20081 with the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry.
Reported as wounded in the local Reading Mercury, 3rd April 1915:
“CASUALTY LIST, BERKS OFFICERS WOUNDED
Royal Berks Regiment, Wounded
…Private A. Midwinter, 10441….”
