Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private E. A. Knott, Royal West Kent Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 23 March 1918
British War and Victory Medals (GS-9863 Pte. E. A. Knott. R.W. Kent R.) good very fine

Pair: Private E. C. Holmes, Royal West Kent Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 19 September 1918
British War and Victory Medals (G-15298 Pte. E. C. Holmes. R.W. Kent R.) good very fine

Pair: Private W. J. Hook, Royal West Kent Regiment, who was killed in action in the Middle East on 19 April 1917
British War and Victory Medals (TF-5347 Pte. W. J. Hook. R.W. Kent R.) good very fine (6) £80-£120

Edward Knott attested for the Royal West Kent Regiment and served with the 10th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 23 March 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

Edwin C. Holmes attested for the Royal West Kent Regiment and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 19 September 1918, on the Hindenburg Line. The son of Mr. & Mrs. Holmes, of Queenborough, Kent, he is buried in Unicorn Cemetery, and is additionally commemorated on the Queenborough War Memorial. The Guardian & East Kent Advertiser of 12 October 1918 reported: ‘Mr. E. J. Holmes of High Street, Queenborough has just received the distressing news of the death in France of his son Pte. Edwin Holmes, R.W. Kents, serving in the machine gun section. He had been wounded on a previous occasion and had only returned to France about six weeks ago. The deepest sympathy goes out to the bereaved family.’

His brother, Private B. T. Holmes of the South Staffordshire Regiment was killed in action on 24 March 1918, also in France.

Sold with an original Great War brass wound badge.

William James Hook, of Gravesend, Kent, attested for the Royal West Kent Regiment and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War in the Middle East. He was killed in action at the battle of Gaza, during the attack on Samson’s Ridge, on 19 April 1917, and is buried in Gaza War Cemetery.