Memorial Plaque (2) (Frank William Gingell; Joseph Edwin Ormsby) both in original card envelopes, very fine and better (2) £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Gallipoli Campaign.

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Frank William Gingell was born in Islington on 4 November 1895, and died of wounds received at Gallipoli on 6 June 1915 whilst serving with the Chatham Battalion, Royal Naval Division. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Joseph Edwin Ormsby (also recorded as Joseph Edward Ormsby) was born in 1894 and served as a Signalman in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Great War. He was killed in action aboard H.M.S. Goliath on 13 May 1915 following an engagement with a Turkish destroyer. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.