Pair: Gunner W. Walker, Royal Artillery, who was killed in action on 21 March 1918, the first day of the “German Spring Offensive”

British War and Victory Medals (111733 Gnr., R.A.), with related Memorial Plaque (William Walker) and Record Office forwarding letter for the first two, good very fine or better (3) £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties formed by Tim Parsons.

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William Walker, who was born at Gustard Wood, Hertfordshire and enlisted at St. Albans, was killed in action on 21 March 1918, the first day of the “German Spring Offensive”, while serving in 294th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. He was interred in the Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-le-Grand, France; photographs of his headstone are included.

Walker left a widow resident at London Colney, Hertfordshire; photographs of the local war memorial, on which he is commemorated, are included.