Orders, Decorations and Medals

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Reginald James Kennard), good very fine £60-80

Reginald James Kennard died on active service on 13 August 1915, while serving as a Private in the 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. On that date, 250 men of the regiment lost their lives when the transport Royal Edward was torpedoed and sunk off Kandeloussa, en route to Gallipoli - she went down by the stern within six minutes. The son of James and Alice Kennard of Ann’s Hill Road, Gosport, Hampshire, he was 21 years of age and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.