Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant J. P. Webster, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, late 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battalion, London Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 24 October 1918

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. P. Webster) both in named card boxes of issue, in outer OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. J. P. Webster, 23 Bagby Road, Leeds’; Memorial Plaque (John Phillip Webster) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, extremely fine (3) £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties.

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John Phillip Webster was born in Burley, Leeds, Yorkshire, on 14 December 1887 and attested for the 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battalion, London Regiment at Kensington, on 2 September 1914. He served with the Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 June 1916, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry on 22 November 1916. He served with the 9th Battalion on the Western Front, and died of wounds as a result of gunshot to the abdomen on 24 October 1918; it seems highly likely that he was wounded during the 9th Battalion’s assault on Vendegie the day before, as a letter sent to the recipient’s wife from the Chaplain attached to the 59th Casualty Clearing Stations, dated 26 October, seems to confirm this. He is buried in Awqoingt British Cemetery, France.

Sold together with named War Office enclosure for the medals; a letter from the Chaplain of the 59th Casualty Clearing Station, France, to the recipient’s wife; War Office letter regarding the recipient’s grave; two poignant letters of condolence to the recipient’s widow; photographs of the recipient and his family; and copied research.