Orders, Decorations and Medals

Lieutenant K. L. Hallward, Worcestershire Regiment, formerly 1/28th London Regiment (Artist’s Rifles), who was killed in action on 28 May 1916

1914 Star (896 Cpl., 1/28 Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); together with memorial plaque (Kenneth Leslie Hallward) contained in a contemporary fitted wooden frame; illuminated memorial scroll, contained in a similar frame; transmission slips for medals; Buckingham Palace letter; snapshot photograph of recipient in uniform; photograph of Hallward’s original grave marker; original telegram, dated 3 July 1916 from Buckingham Palace to Lieutenant Hallward’s father expressing their Majesties sorrow, nearly extremely fine (4) £350-400

Lieutenant Kenneth Leslie Hallward was killed in action in France and Flanders on 28 May 1916, whilst serving with the 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. He is buried at Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St Eloi, France.

The following is extracted from a photocopy of a contemporary newspaper cutting included with the lot: ‘Second Lieutenant Kenneth Leslie Hallward, Worcestershire Regiment, was killed on May 28 [1916]. Born in 1890, he was educated at Durston House, Ealing and Dover College, where he gained a scholarship. He joined the Artist’s Rifles in 1910 and went out to France with the regiment in October 1914. He received his commission in the Worcestershire Regiment in March 1915 and was wounded on April 1, 1915. He returned to the front on March 19 last. He was the only son of A. W. Hallward, New Scotland Yard, S.W., and Mrs Hallward, of Milton House, Bedford Park, and when war broke out was in the Civil Service, Somerset House.’