Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Pair: Private A. E. Healy, Lancashire Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 30 July 1916, aged just 16 years and 3 months
British War and Victory Medals (25478 Pte. A. E. Healy. Lan. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Albert Edward Healey [sic]) in card envelope; Memorial Scroll ‘Pte. Albert Edward Healey [sic] Lancashire Fusiliers’, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, nearly extremely fine

Victory Medal 1914-19 (106183 Dvr. W. Healy. R.A.) nearly extremely fine (4) £200-£240

Albert Edward Healey was born in Marylebone, London, on 14 April 1900 and attested underage for the Middlesex Regiment at Kilburn, London, on 10 August 1915 (claiming his age to be 19). Transferring to the Lancashire Fusiliers, he served with the 18th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 30 July 1916, aged just 16 years and 3 months. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Sold with a letter home from the recipient to his mother; original birth and attestation certificates; a large portrait photograph of the recipient; and copied research