Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Warrant Officer Class I J. Irons, South Wales Borderers, killed in action on the Western Front 20 November 1917

1914 Star (8719 Sjt. J. Irons. S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (8719 A.W.O. Cl.1 J. Irons. S. Wales Bord.) good very fine (3) £100-140

James Irons was born in Fulham, London, and attested for the South Wales Borderers at London. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914 (additionally entitled to a clasp to his 1914 Star), and was advanced Company Sergeant Major. He was killed in action at Villers-Plouich on 20 November 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, on which date the Battalion established itself in the Hindenburg Line, and is buried in Villers-Plouich Communal Cemetery, France. His death is recorded in the History of the South Wales Borderers as being ‘a great loss.’