History of Wigan   (Help with ancient and recent history.)

I have his medals from both wars and the inscriptions on the side edges had different names, this initially made me think one set of medals were not his, however once I found his service records on ancestry the names were cross referenced on both sets of records. Apparently he was granted an amnesty for WW1 service for having lied on oath when signing up for Boer war. Hope this makes sense. Geraldine