Pair: Private W. Lerigo, 12th Battalion South Wales Borderers, killed in action, 25 November 1917

British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (24042 Pte., S. Wales Bord.); Memorial Plaque (Walter Lerigo) extremely fine (4) £140-180

M.I.D. London Gazette 14 December 1917.

Walter Lerigo was born in Sleetburn, Durham, lived at Dinnington, Yorkshire and enlisted at Rotherham, Yorkshire. Serving with the 12th Battalion South Wales Borderers he was mentioned in Haig’s despatches dated 7 November 1917. He was killed in action at Bourlon Wood on 25 November 1917. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louveral, Nord, France.

The medals, plaque and a modern S.W.B. cap badge are mounted in a wooden glass-fronted case, 354 x 303mm. With M.I.D. Certificate in original (damaged) envelope, addressed to ‘Mr W. N. Lerigo, 33 Carr View Avenue, Balby, Doncaster 49 Station Rd., Easington Colliery, Durham’; Memorial Scroll, named to ‘Pte. Walter Lerigo, S. Wales Borderers’; slip to accompany the British War and Victory Medals; named card lid of the box containing the same; card envelope for the plaque; slip to accompany the plaque, and copied research.