Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Acting Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant J. J. Whyman, Royal Artillery, who was killed in action in Belgium on 15 August 1917

British War and Victory Medals (148408 A. B.Q.M. Sjt., R.A.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (148408 Gnr., R.A.), with related Memorial Plaque (James John Whyman), extremely fine (4) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties formed by Tim Parsons.

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James John Whyman was born in Islington and enlisted at Barnsbury, Middlesex.

He was killed in action in Belgium on 15 August 1917, while serving in 1/1 London Heavy Battery, and was interred in Coxyde Military Cemetery.