Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (2) (George Lockwood; Harold Beaumont) first in card envelope of issue, extremely fine; last badly pitted, fine (2) £40-60

Lance-Corporal George Lockwood, King’s Yorkshire Light Infantry, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 April 1915. Subsequently commissioned and serving with “E” Company, 10th Battalion King’s Yorkshire Light Infantry, he was killed in action on 3 November 1917, aged 22 years. He was buried in the St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen. He was the son of George and Mary Ann Lockwood of 4 Edward Street, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Sold with original commemorative scroll, in card tube addressed to ‘Mrs D. Lockwood, Ivy Cottage, Crookham, Hampshire’.