Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Captain Heneage Greville Finch, Lord Guernsey, Irish Guards, late Wiltshire Regiment, who was killed in action, 14 September 1914

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Lieut. H. G. Lord Guernsey, Wilts Rgt.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lieut. Lord Guernsey, Ir. Gds.); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed, mounted for wear, good very fine and better (3) £600-800

Heneage Greville Finch, Lord Guernsey, was born on 2 June 1883, the eldest son of Charles Wightwich Finch, 8th Earl of Aylesford. Educated at Eton, he joined the Militia in August 1901 and served with the Wiltshire Regiment in St. Helena during the Boer War. He was gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant in the Irish Guards in June 1902 and was promoted to Lieutenant in September 1904. Appointed A.D.C. to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar in 1905, he retired from the Army in 1906. In August 1910 he became a Captain in the Warwickshire Yeomanry and became a Captain in the Reserve of Officer in April 1914. With the outbreak of war, he rejoined the Irish Guards and went to France on 12 August 1914. He was killed while leading his company into action at Soupir, 14 September 1914. He was buried in the Soupir Communal Cemetery.