Auction Catalogue

5 November 1991

Starting at 11:30 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Westbury Hotel  37 Conduit Street  London  W1S 2YF

Lot

№ 363

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5 November 1991

Hammer Price:
£180

1914 STAR TRIO (3)

Corporal J. W. Goddard, 15th Hussars (1011 Sd.Cpl., 15/Hrs; 1011 Cpl., 15-Hrs), shown as wounded in the Regimental History

Private R. Wynne, Royal Scots (3933 Pte., 2/R. Scots) Died of wounds, 13 April, 1916

Private J. W. Walker, Northumberland Fusiliers (538 Pte, l/North'd Fus.)with Mons bar. Private Walker was reported missing in October1914 and confirmed as a Prisoner of War in March 1915. He died in captivity and is buried at the Nikolai Cemetery at Jelgava in Latvia. The British plot contains the graves of 36 sailors and soldiers from the U.K., most of whom died as prisoners in 1917 on what is now Latvian territory. Good very fine and better (9)