British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal W. S. Payne, Gloucestershire Regiment, who was killed in action in France in September 1918

British War and Victory Medals (2528 Cpl. W. S. Payne, Glouc. R.), in their original card box of issue inside registered envelope, together with related Memorial Plaque (Wallace Smith Payne), in card sleeve with Buckingham Palace slip, extremely fine (3) £120-150

Wallace Smith Payne was killed in action on 1 September 1918, while serving in the 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Aged 29 years, and the husband of Alice Frances Payne of Newtown Bristol (to whom the above registered envelope is addressed), he is buried in the Aval Wood Military Cemetery at Vieux-Berquin.