Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private A. P. Eglintine, 22nd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers

British War and Victory Medals (22-134 Pte., North’d. Fus.); together with memorial plaque (Alfred Peacock Eglintine); oak mounted copper presentation plaque inscribed ‘Durham Miners Association, Boldon Lodge, In honour of the memory of A. Eglintine who made the supreme sacrifice for his country in the Great War 1914-1919, nearly extremely fine (4) £200-250

Private Alfred Peacock Eglintine was born and enlisted in South Shields. He was killed in action France and Flanders 1 July 1916 on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Serre Road Cemetery, France.