Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain H. D. Mohan, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., R. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) good very fine and better (3) £250-300

Harry Deacon Mohan was born in Belfast on 2.1.1889 and Educated at Belfast University where he served as a Cadet in the Officers Training Corps. From the cadets he was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in January 1915. He joined the 6th battalion in Gallipoli on 6.10.1915 and thence to Port Said, Egypt and then to Basra, Iraq. He was slightly wounded by gunshot on 5.4.1916 in the trenches at Hannah and was reported missing at Sannaujat on 9.4.1916 and was assumed to have been killed in action on 11 April 1916. His name is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq. Sold with copied services papers and other details.