Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Memorial Plaque to Lieutenant-Colonel Edgar Arthur Innes, C.M.G., commanding the 1st/8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, killed in action on the first day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Edgar Arthur Innes) extremely fine £500-600

Edgar Arthur Innes was born in Kings Norton, Warwickshire in 1873. A Wine Merchant by occupation and living at 93 Metchley Abbey Lane, Harborne, Birmingham, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 18 April 1900. The 8th Battalion he eventually commanded was a Territorial unit based at Aston in Birmingham, part of the 143rd South Midland Brigade. As Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st/8th Battalion, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 23 March 1915. Lieutenant-Colonel Innes was awarded the C.M.G. in 1916 (London Gazette 14 January 1916). He was killed in action leading his battalion on the first day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

With copied research.