Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private L. J. N. Noon, 7th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment, killed in action, Battle of Doiran, Salonika, 24 April 1917

1914-15 Star (13817 Pte., Wilts. R.); British War and Victory Medals (13817 Pte., Wilts. R.); Memorial Plaque (Leslie John Neville Noon) extremely fine (6) £180-220

Leslie John Neville Noon was born in Acton, London, lived in Leicester and enlisted at Birmingham. He initially served as Private 14707 in the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Noon was killed in action at the battle of Doiran on the Salonika Front on 24 April 1917, aged 21 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Doiran memorial, Greece. He was the son of John Thomas Neville and Rebecca Caroline Noon of Gorse Road, Whitegate Drive, Blackpool.
 
Noon was one of those killed in a disastrous attack on the Bulgarian position on the Grand Couronne, near Doiran. The assaulting troops came up against a devastating fire and unbreached barbed wire and few got into the Bulgarian trenches. The 7th Wilts suffered more than 300 killed and wounded, including 14 out of 15 officers.

With silver identity tag inscribed, ‘Signaller Leslie J.N. Noon, 14707 (his Ox. and Bucks. L.I. number) C Coy 7th Wilts Batt, Salonika Forces’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1916; and with a Wiltshire Regiment, base gilt metal and enamel sweetheart brooch. Also with copied research.