Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant W. Turner, Royal Artillery, who was killed in action in Belgium on 9 October 1917

1914-15 Star (82363 Cpl., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (82363 Sjt., R.A.), with related Memorial Plaque (William Turner), one or two edge bruises, nearly extremely fine (4) £200-250

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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William Turner was born at Stone, Staffordshire and enlisted at Stoke-on-Trent.

He was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s despatch dated 13 November 1916, very probably for services on the Somme (London Gazette 4 January 1917).

Turner was killed in action on 9 October 1917, while serving in ‘C’ Battery, 95th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery and was buried in The Huts Cemetery at Dickebusch, Belgium; photographs of his headstone are included.

Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including memorial scroll; Record Office forwarding letters for his campaign awards, and registered envelopes; R.H. and R.F.A. Record Office forwarding letter for M.I.D. emblems; and two or three Imperial War Graves Commission communications, with two photographs of the recipient’s grave, in addition to relevant grave register pamphlet (Belgium 9).