Auction Catalogue

15 December 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 813 x

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15 December 2011

Hammer Price:
£45

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Edward James Slade), good very fine £40-60

Attributed to Edward James Slade, a Rifleman in the 6th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, who died on 29 November 1918, and who is buried in Lavender Hill Cemetery; however, at least one other man with these names appears on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission register - a Private in the 1st Royal Dragoons, who died on active service on 12 November 1914, and who is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.