WW1 Hudson 1907 Patent Trench Whistle & Khaki Webbing Button Strap, Cheshire Regt. Trio of Medals Plus His Overseas Service Stripe, and Anzac Sweetheart Badge

Trio, including faithful service police medal, red stripe for 1 year service overseas, Anzac sweetheart brooch, medal uniform bar and his trench whistle. Private Herbert Cox, of the Cheshire Regiment, who served in WW1, survived the war and became a 'Special' Police Officer in WW2, where he continued to use his WW1 whistle. We have his named WW1 and Special Constabulary Faithfull Service Medal. medal group. Original Vintage Acme City Whistle with ring top, this particular example is in great condition, full working order and extremely loud.

Maker - Hudson & Co of Birmingham, England

The City whistle was a 1907 Patent [number 25619]
The Whistle is attached to a khaki army button strap

First World War, the Cheshire Regt.
Both regular battalions deployed to the Western Front in 1914-15. 1st Battalion stayed there for the duration of the First World War (1914-18), but suffered 771 casualties at Audregnies during the Battle of Mons in August 1914. 2nd Battalion transferred from France to Salonika in late 1915.

The regiment also raised 36 Territorial, New Army and Garrison battalions, fighting in Gallipoli, Sinai, Mesopotamia and Palestine as well as on the Western Front.

The regiment’s battalions spent the inter-war years in Ireland, Malta, Sudan, India and Palestine.
We show an advert for Hudsons whistles in WW1 demonstrating examples that saved the serviceman’s lives.
For example; BULLET BOUNCED OFF HIS WW1 WHISTLE

Corporal Clucas, a veteran of the 1914 Battle of Mons, was fighting in France with the Royal Field Artillery the following year when he was hit by enemy fire. But his luck was with him that day as the bullet bounced off a whistle he was carrying. The Liverpudlian soldier’s luck ran out later in the war when he was wounded fighting in the Battle of Passchendaele at Ypres in 1917. While being taken by stretcher to a dressing station a shell exploded, killing the 22 year old.

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