Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Lance-Bombardier J. Walker, Royal Artillery, who was killed in action in September 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (96681 Gnr. J. Walker, D. 102/Bde. R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (96681 Gnr. J. Walker, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (96681 Gnr. J. Walker, R.A.), generally very fine (4) £300-350

M.M. London Gazette 18 July 1917.

James Walker, who first entered the French theatre of war in late August 1915, was killed in action on 28 September 1918, while serving as a Lance-Bombardier in ‘D’ Battery, 157th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. The son of Mrs. Annie Walker of Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire, he was 25 years of age and is buried in Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Ypres, Belgium.