Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Lieutenant H. Owen, 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment

1914 Star, with clasp (2. Lieut., Bord. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) mounted for display on a blue velvet covered board with small brass plaque beneath, inscribed ‘Lieut. H. Owen, 2nd Border Regiment’, nearly extremely fine (3) £400-450

Hugh Owen was born at Sebastopol, Crimea on 30 May 1890 and educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Cranbrook; Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Durham University. On the outbreak of war he was gazetted as Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Border Regiment with effect from 21 August 1914, and promoted Lieutenant on 8 April 1915. He went to the Front on 13 November 1914, was wounded at Neuve Chapelle on 12 March 1915, returned to duty on 6 April and was killed in action at Festubert on 16 May 1915.