Auction Catalogue

16 April 2020

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Lot

№ 446

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16 April 2020

Hammer Price:
£300

Pair: Second Lieutenant L. E. Denis-Marklew, Lincolnshire Regiment, who died of wounds received at the Battle of Passchendaele on 12 October 1917

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. L. E. Denis-Marklew); Memorial Plaque (Leslie Ernest Denis-Marklew) in card envelope of issue, with Buckingham Palace enclosure,
BWM officially re-impressed, nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140

Leslie Ernest Denis-Marklew was commissioned into the Lincolnshire Regiment, and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was mortally wounded in action during the attack on Taube Farm at the first Battle of Passchendaele on 12 October 1917, and died of wounds the same day. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.