Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Trooper M. G. Haynes, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), killed in action, 23 January 1916

1914-15 Star (1709 Tpr., R.H. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (1709 Tpr., R.H. Gds.); Memorial Plaque (Mark George Haynes) extremely fine (4) £240-280

Mark George Haynes was born and lived in Twyford, Buckinghamshire and enlisted at St. Pancras, Middlesex. Serving with the Royal Horse Guards, he was killed in action on 23 January 1916, aged 21 years. He was buried in the Quarry Cemetery, Vermelles. He was the son of John and Mary Ann Haynes of Woodbine Cottages, Twyford. Medals with card boxes of issue complete with enclosures; plaque in card envelope with slip; together with Memorial Scroll; identity disk; cloth badge; recipent’s Musketry Small Book and Equitation booklet; copied obituary and other research.