Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private A. H. Lindsay, King’s (Liverpool Regiment), who was killed in action on the Western Front on 5 January 1918

British War and Victory Medals (235310 Pte. A. H. Lindsay. L’pool R.); Memorial Plaque (Alexander Hugh Lindsay) in card envelope; together with the recipient’s card identity disk ‘Lindsay 235310 Pres King’, extremely fine (3) £120-£160

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

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Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family.

Alexander Hugh Lindsay was born in Manchester and attested there for the Yorkshire Regiment in September 1916, subsequently transferring to the King’s Liverpool Regiment. He served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 5 October 1918. He is buried in Anneux British Cemetery, France.

Sold with a portrait photograph of the recipient, and another of him in a newspaper cutting; three postcards written to the recipient from his wife, and housed in a leather wallet; a small flask; a photograph of the recipient’s original grave; and other ephemera.