Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Eric Alfred Gosling) in card envelope, good very fine £100-£140

Eric Alfred Gosling, a native of Woking, Surrey, attested for the London Regiment in London and served with the 5th Battalion (London Rifle Brigade) during the Great War on the Western Front from 2 September 1915. He was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, on which date the Battalion, as part of 169 Brigade, 56th (1st London) Division, was involved in an attack on Gommecourt, and suffered total casualties of 588. Gosling is buried in Gommecourt British Cemetery No. 2, France.