Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. Garner, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action in the First Battle of Ypres, 30 November 1914

1914 Star (5871 Pte W. Garner. K.R.Rif: C.); British War and Victory Medals (5871 Pte. W. Garner. K. R. Rif. C.); Memorial Plaque (William Garner) in transmittal envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. A. Brooks, 29 Tennyson St., Seaford Rd., Pendleton’, this part torn; together with an aluminium identity tag, ‘5871 W Garner CE KRR’, nearly extremely fine (4) £240-280

William John Garner was born in 1886, in Delamere, Cheshire, and attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in May 1904. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914, and was reported missing, presumed killed in action, on 30 November 1914. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.