Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family Group:
Pair: Private B. Downing, Tank Corps, formerly Yorkshire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (28404 Pte., York. R.) with Bronze Memorial Plaque (Benjamin Downing) and Illuminated Memorial Scroll (Gnr., Tank Corps); together with related Great War Pair (14-058130 Dvr. W. T. Downing, A.S.C.) all mounted in a contemporary oak frame, this a little tatty, otherwise good very fine or better (5)

Private Benjamin Downing was born in Metfield, Yorkshire, and enlisted at Masham, Yorkshire. He was killed in action, France and Flanders, 4 July 1917, whilst serving with the Tank Corps.