Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private A. G. Marchant, South Staffordshire Regiment, late Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in action in October 1917

British War and Victory Medals (34988 Pte., R.F.C.), together with related Memorial Plaque (Arthur George Marchant), one or two edge bruises, otherwise nearly extremely fine (3) £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the R.F.C. and R.A.F. formed by Wing Commander Bill Traynor.

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Arthur George Marchant, who was born in Islington and enlisted at Highgate, London, originally served as a Private in the Royal Flying Corps (No. 34988), Transferring to the South Staffordshire Regiment at a later date, he was killed in action on 12 October 1917, while serving in the 8th Battalion. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.