Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private R. Baxendale, Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 18 September 1918

British War and Victory Medals (3267 Pte. R. Baxendale. West. & Cumb. Y.) in named card box of issue, in outer OHMS transmission envelope, addressed to ‘Mrs. Baxendale, 33 Talbot St., Beswick, Manchester’; Memorial Plaque (Robert Baxendale) in card envelope; together with a small Belgian medallion; and a Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry cap badge, extremely fine (5) £300-£400

Robert Baxendale was born in Ancoats, Lancashire, and attested for the Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry at Beswick, Manchester. He transferred to the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, latterly when the unit formed the 7th Battalion of the Border Regiment. He was killed in action on 18 September 1918; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France.