British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Gunner Fred Campion, Royal Field Artillery, killed in action, 21 October 1917
British War and Victory Medals (232636 Gnr., R.A.); Memorial Plaque (Fred Campion) this last in card envelope, extremely fine (3) £100-140

Before the war Fred Campion was employed by the North Eastern Railway as a Porter at Hull. He enlisted at Hull and served in the R.F.A. Serving with “C” Battery, 282nd Brigade R.F.A., he was killed in action on 21 October 1917. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

With North Eastern Railway Roll of Honour; framed commemorative scroll; Imperial War Graves Commission Memorial slip and an O.H.M.S. forwarding envelope addressed to ‘G. A. Campion, 8 Villa Row, Courtney Street, Holderness Road, Hull’.