Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private H. Wilkinson, Cheshire Regiment, who was killed in action with the 9th Battalion on the Somme in November 1916

British War and Victory Medals (32966 Pte., Ches. R.), together with related cap badge, the first with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine and better (3) £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Cheshire and Manchester Regiments, Rifle Brigade and Royal Green Jackets formed by the late David Boniface.

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Harold Wilkinson, who was born in Hyde, Cheshire, was killed in action on the Somme on 16 November 1916, while serving in the 9th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. His mother received a letter from Company Sergeant-Major A. R. Tetlow of ‘D’ Company, stating that he was killed on the evening of the 16th, while the North Cheshire Herald further reported that in his last letter home, Wilkinson said he had lost his sense of taste as he had ‘had a bit of gas’. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.