The Collection of Medals Formed by Bill and Angela Strong

Pair: Private M. B. Wilshaw, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, killed in action, 24 August 1916

British War and Victory Medals (15106 Pte., K.S.L.I.); Memorial Plaque (Malcolm Buchanan Wilshaw) extremely fine (3)
£140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Malcolm Buchanan Wilshaw was born and lived in Kinnerley, Shropshire and enlisted at Shrewsbury. Serving with the 5th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 5 October 1915. He was killed in action on 24 August 1916. Having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Entitled to the 1914-15 Star.

Medals in damaged card box of issue; plaque in card envelope with associated slip. With named commemorative scroll; with four letters from Malcolm Wilshaw to his father and mother, in envelopes addressed to ‘School House, Kinnerley, Oswestry, Shropshire’. The letters are dated 8 October 1915; 15 November 1915; 20 December 1915 and 28 December 1915. Also with two letters from his brother Duncan to his father and mother at the same address; letters dated 23 October 1916 and 15 March 1917. With some copied research. For medals to another brother, John Alexander Wilshaw, see lot 295.