Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (2) (James Clements Barber; William Charles Haddock), good very fine (2) £80-£120

James Clements Barber, who was born in London, died at home, aged 51, on 21 March 1916, while serving with the 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters). He was buried at Hampstead Cemetery.

No William Charles Haddock has been traced in Soldiers Died in the Great War or in the C.W.G.C. records; but William Funston Haddock, son of W. C. Haddock, a clerk of Coutts and Co. bank (formerly of the Income Tax Department), was killed in action when the 1st Battalion Civil Service Rifles went 'went over the top at 6 a.m. the following morning at High Wood, after which engagement he was listed as "missing" and subsequently reported as "presumed killed" (The War Record of Coutts and Co., refers).