Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: 2nd Lieutenant D. Heald, Rifle Brigade, who died of wounds while serving with the 1st Battalion in the 3rd Battle of Ypres in October 1917

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.), good very fine and better (2) £140-160

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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Douglas Heald first entered the French theatre as a private soldier in the Rifle Brigade in June 1917. Subsequently commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant, he joined the 1st Battalion and died of wounds following an action at Poelcapelle in the 3rd battle of Ypres on 6 October 1917. Aged 25 years, and the son of Hugh and Florence heald of Ormskirk, Lancashire, he is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery at Westvleteren, Belgium.