Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private T. E. Watling, 8th Battalion Devonshire Regiment, late Dorsetshire Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, 4 October 1917

British War and Victory Medals (27037 Pte., Dorset. R.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Edward Watling) good very fine and better (3) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to the Dorsetshire Regiment.

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Private Thomas Edward Watling originally served with the Dorsetshire Regiment. When serving with the 8th Battalion Devonshire Regiment, he was killed in action in Flanders, on 4 October 1917. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. He was the husband of Helen Elizabeth Watling, of 37 Elliott Road, Brixton, London. With copied m.i.c. and casualty details.