Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. Capstick, Scots Guards, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 16 September 1917

1914-15 Star (9451 Pte. W. Capstick. S. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (9451 Pte. W. Capstick. S. Gds.); Memorial Plaque (Walter Capstick); Memorial Scroll ‘Guardsman Walter Capstick. Scots Guards’, the scroll slightly cut at extreme edges, having previously been mounted, otherwise nearly extremely fine (5) £180-£220

Walter Capstick was born in Marsden, Yorkshire, and attested for the Scots Guards at Blackpool, Lancashire, in August 1914. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 28 December 1914, and was wounded at Loos. Returning to the Front in March 1917, he was mortally wounded on 16 September 1917, and died in hospital of his wounds later that day. He is buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.

Sold with a ‘Good Luck’ 1915 Christmas ‘Card’ manufactured from a piece of torn khaki, inscribed ‘B.E.F. To Walter, with best wishes, from Harold’; and copied research, including a copied newspaper cutting containing a photograph of the recipient.