Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Pair: Private A. Mortyn, 15th (Prince of Wales’ Own Civil Service Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (6649 Pte., 15-Lond. R.); together with an attractive silver and enamel regimental sweetheart brooch, inscribed on reverse ‘Dear mother from Gus, July 16th, 1916’; illuminated memorial scroll, this additionally inscribed ‘drowned 30.12.1917’; original photograph of recipient in uniform; transmission slip for medals; Buckingham Palace letter; and assorted newspaper cuttings and a postcard relating to the sinking of H.M.T. Aragon, extremely fine (3) £100-120

Augustine Mortyn was born at St. Helens, lived at Ilford and enlisted in London. He died at sea on 30 December 1917 when the Transport Aragon was torpedoed and sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean, just off Alexandria. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Chatby Memorial, Egypt.