Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private A. C. C. Kitney, 8th (Service) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who died of wounds on the Western Front, 6 July 1915
1914-15 Star (R-8062 Pte. A. C. C. Kitney. K.R.Rif:C.); British War and Victory Medals (R-8062 Pte. A. C. C. Kitney. K.R.Rif.C.) very fine or better

Three: Private W. W. Howes, 8th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action on the Western Front, and was the Battalion’s first fatality of the Great War, 10 June 1915
1914-15 Star (B-210 Pte W. W. Howes. Rif: Brig:); British War and Victory Medals (B-210 Pte. W. W. Howes. Rif. Brig.) BWM officially renamed, good very fine (6) £100-£140

Albert Charles Cyril Kitney was born in Rainham, Kent. He served during the Great War with the 8th (Service) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps in the French theatre of war from 19 May 1915. Kitney died of wounds on the Western Front, 6 July 1915, and is buried in the St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France.

Walter William Howes was born in Brixton, Surrey. He served during the Great War with the 8th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade in the French theatre of war from 19 May 1915. Howes was killed in action on the Western Front, 10 June 1915. The Battalion War Diary records that Howes and a Rifleman Morris were the first men killed in action, suffered by the 8th (Service) Battalion during the Great War.

Private Howes is buried in Elzenwalle Brasserie Cemetery, Belgium.