Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private W. Jones, Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action with the 13th Battalion on the Somme in July 1916

British War and Victory Medals (S-3150 Pte., Rif. Brig.), together with related Memorial Plaque (Walter Jones), good very fine (3) £100-120

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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Walter Jones, who was born in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, was killed in action on the Somme on 10 July 1916, while serving with the 13th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. On that date, his unit attacked the German frontline and suffered casualties of 20 officers and 380 other ranks. Jones has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial; so, too, on a memorial tablet in St. Peter’s Church, Goodwick, Pembrokeshire.