Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private A. King, 149th Company, Machine Gun Corps, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 3 August 1917

British War and Victory Medals (87202 Pte. A. King. M.G.C.) with flattened named card box of issue; Memorial Plaque (Albert King) with OHMS outer envelope addressed to ‘Mrs Louisa J King, 37 Dumfries St., Luton, Beds.’; Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Albert King, Machine Gun Corps’, in OHMS transmittal tube, similarly addressed together with Machine Gun Corps and Tank Corps Records enclosure slip, extremely fine (4) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals.

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Albert King was born on 9 September 1892 at Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and served with the 149th Company, Machine Gun Corps during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 3 August 1917. The husband of Louisa Jane King of 37 Dumfries Street, Luton, he is buried in Hibers Trench Cemetery, Wancourt, France.

Sold together with an official photograph of the recipient’s original wooden cross grave in Hibers Trench British Cemetery, Wancourt provided by the Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries in an OHMS envelope addressed to the recipient’s widow; a section of a letter written describing a visit to the grave shortly after the war; and Record Office transmittal slip for the recipient’s medals.