Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (3) (Arthur Lamb; Percy William Merrison; Percy Marlow Shaw) second and third in card envelopes of issue, good very fine (3) £100-£140

Arthur Lamb, a native of Egremont, Cheshire, served during the Great War as an Able Seaman in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was killed in action on 5 May 1917, when the S.S. Harmatten, on a voyage from Avonmouth with a cargo of government stores, was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-37 in the Mediterranean, 7 miles north from Ras Rosa, Algeria, with the loss of her entire crew of 36. Lamb is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

Percy William Merrison, a native of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, attested for the Norfolk Regiment at East Dereham, Norfolk, and served with the 1st/5th Battalion during the Great War in Palestine. He died on 19 April 1917, and having no known grave is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial.

Percy Marlow Shaw was born in Ludworth, Derbyshire, and attested for the Devonshire Regiment at Hyde, Derbyshire. He served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War in Italy, and was killed in action on 27 October 1918. He is buried in Tezze British Cemetery, Italy.

Sold with War Office letter to the recipient’s widow, addressed to ‘Mrs. E. A. Shaw, 50 Stanley Road, Hyde, Chester’.