Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Sapper F. Gunner, Royal Engineers

1914-15 Star (101661 Spr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (101661 Spr., R.E.); together with, Haynes Memorial Medal, bronze, edge inscribed ‘No.101661 Sapper F. Gunner, 244 Party’, this last with original fitted case of issue and letter forwarding medal to his wife, dated 26 May 1916, generally nearly extremely fine or better (4) £50-70

The Haynes Memorial Medal was established as an annual prize in 1902, to honour the memory of Captain Alfred Ernest Haynes, a military engineer who was killed during the assault on the Makonis stronghold, Mashonaland in 1896.