Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private E. W. Terry, Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 23 April 1917
British War and Victory Medals (GS-41265 Pte. E. W. Terry. R. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Edward William Terry) in original card envelope; Memorial Scroll, inscribed ‘Pte. Edward William Terry, Royal Fusiliers’ in original tube, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, minor official correction to rank on BWM, very fine (4) £300-£400

Edward William Terry was born at Great Boar’s Vale, Kent, and attested for the Royal Fusiliers at Caterham. He served with the 13th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action at Chevrille on 23 April 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

Sold with a substantial number of letters from Terry to his wife; a letter from The Rev J. Gray, Chaplain to the Forces, to Mrs Terry, dated 9 July 1917, noting ‘I regret to say that your husband was reported missing on April 23rd 1917 at Garvelle’; original memorial card; and other official letters.