Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Pair: Private J. E. R. Laver, Royal Warwickshire Regiment and Gloucestershire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (39234 Pte. J. E. R. Laver. R. War. R.) contact marks, very fine

Three: Flight Lieutenant E. A. J. Laver, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed in action 12 June 1943
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Air Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘J. E. R. Laver Esq., 23 Alexandra Road, Mitcham, Surrey’, extremely fine (5) £300-400

John Edward Reuben Laver was born at Mile End, London, in 1899, and served during the Great War with both the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and latterly the Gloucestershire Regiment. He married Miss Florence Burrows at Balham, London, on 26 December 1921.

Edward Alfred James Laver was born in 1923, the son of John Laver and his wife Florence, and was commissioned Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 19 February 1943. He served during the Second World War in No. 158 Squadron, was advanced to Flight Lieutenant, and was killed in action when his Halifax crashed over Cologne whilst on operations to Dusseldorf on the night of 11-12 June 1943. He is buried alongside the rest of his crew in Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany.