British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Acting Serjeant Hugh Lewis, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, late Montgomery Yeomanry, died of wounds, 11 March 1918
British War and Victory Medals (2077 A. Sjt., Montgom. Yeo.); Glasbury Parish Tribute Medal, 23mm., 9ct. gold, 4.79g., obverse bearing the initials, ‘HL’, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented in Memory of H. J. Lewis for Duty in the Great War 1914 to 1918 from Glasbury Parish’, with ring suspension; Memorial Plaque (Hugh Lewis) reverse fitted with a loop for hanging, nearly extremely fine (4) £300-350

Hugh Lewis was born in Glasbury, Hay, Breconshire. A Farmer by occupation, he attested for the Montgomery Yeomanry at Hay on 9 April 1914, aged 24 years. The 1/1st Battalion Montgomery Yeomanry and Welsh Horse amalgamated into the 25th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers in December 1916. As an Acting Serjeant with the 25th (Montgomeryshire and Welsh Horse Yeomanry) Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, he died of wounds in Palestine on 11 March 1918, aged 28 years. His name is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial. His effects and medals were sent to his parents at ‘Tregoyd Farm, Three Cocks, Brecon’.

With a quantity of copied service papers contained in a folder. An extract from The Montgomery Yeomanry, lists him as being ‘killed’ rather than having ‘died of wounds’ on 11 March 1918.