Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Walter Campion) good very fine £40-50

Walter Campion was born in Horne Castle, Lincolnshire and enlisted at Holborn, Middlesex. Serving with the 12th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps he died of wounds, France / Flanders, 2 April 1918. His name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.

Sold with named commemorative scroll, plaque forwarding slip and other commemorative papers, a silk bearing the K.R.R.C. badge and a ‘Union Jack’. With the latter is a note reading; ‘Union Jack waved by a little boy of 6 years (Harvey Campion) at the first Armistice Service and 2 minutes silence in London. He said almost everyone of the thousands present was dressed in black. The 2 minutes silence was intense, occasionally broken by a stifled sob or the movement of a horse’s hoof. His Father had been reported missing - killed in action on the Western Front on 21st March, 1918.’