Distinguished Conduct Medal GVR (34695 B.S.MJR. E.P. FAULKNER. A/149 BDE. R.F.A.); 1914 -15 Star (34695 B.S.MJR. E.P. FAULKNER. R.F.A.); British War Medal (34695 W.O.CL.2. E.P. FAULKNER. R.A.); Victory Medal with M.I.D. Oakleaf (34695 W.O.CL.2. E.P. FAULKNER. R.A.); Defence Medal; Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal GVR (1017643 W.O.CL.II. E.P. FAULKNER. D.C.M. R.F.A.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal GVR (EDWARD P. FAULKNER.)
Edward Poole Faulkner was born in Edinburgh in 1890. At the age of 14 years 9 months he attested for the RFA at North Shields in 1904 and saw service with A/149 Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery in France from 21 May 1915. He was Mentioned in Dispatches in the London Gazette of 11.12.1917 and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in the London Gazette of 3.9.1918.
According to a pension card dated 1923 he was to be treated as "Insane" but is uncertain how long this condition lasted.
The 1939 Register has him living at 21 Lower Marsh Road, Lambeth where he was a R.A.A. Commissioner and, in the remarks column, a Sheffield Trained Senior Warden and R.F.A. Pensioner (B.S.M.). He passed away on 28 November 1969 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire with his obituary appearing in the Horncastle News of 11 December 1969. It read as follows:
"The death occurred at St George's Hospital, Lincoln on Friday of Mr Edward Poole Faulkner of Hemingby. Mr Faulkner, who was 80, was a native of Edinburgh. He joined the Royal Field Artillery regiment at the age of 14, serving in India as Gunnery Instructor and attaining the rank of Sergeant Major - serving for 23 years. He had lived at Hemingby for the last seven years.
In the First World War he was awarded the D.C.M. D.S.O. (sic) and Victory Medal. Following Army service he was for eighteen years an Attendant at the Law Courts in London, also being a Special Constable and member of the Home Guard in the Second World War."
Medals are in good condition unless otherwise indicated. Sold with copied research.
