Auction Catalogue

13 December 2007

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 820

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13 December 2007

Hammer Price:
£150

Three: Lieutenant T. Panton, Royal Naval Reserve

British War and Victory Medals
(Lieut., R.N.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Thomas Panton)

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (2 Lieut. E. P. Kaye; 45430 Pte. W. Goater, M.G.C.) extremely fine (5) £100-140

2nd Lieutenant Eric Priestley Kaye, 7th Battalion West Riding Regiment, was killed in action on 3 May 1917, aged 22 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He was the son of Joseph James and Ellen Kaye of 2 Manor House Street, Peterborough.

William Goater was born in Camberwell, Surrey and enlisted at Battersea. Serving initially in the K.R.R.C., he died of wounds on 29 November 1916 when serving with the 147th Company, Machine Gun Corps. He was buried in the Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery.