Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Acting Sergeant E. B. Markwick, Motor Cyclist Section, Royal Engineers, who died of disease at 45 Casualty Clearing Station, France on 9 November 1918

1914 Star (28798 Cpl. E. B. Markwick. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (28798 A. Sjt. E. B. Markwick. R.E.); Memorial Plaque (Edward Baguley Markwick) mounted in a contemporary glazed wooden frame, mild corrosion/staining to reverse of second, otherwise 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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Edward Baguley Markwick was born in 1895, a native of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham and served initially during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 October 1914 as a Corporal in the Motor Cyclist Section of the Royal Engineers. He also served in the Special Brigade and the 2nd Signal Company. He died from pneumonia aged 22 at 45 Casualty Clearing Station, Awoingt, France on 9 November 1918. He had been hospitalised in 4th Stationary Hospital, France on 29 November 1916 with Impetigo and was a patient in Allerton VAD Hospital, Lichfield Road Sutton Coldfield from February 1917 until March 1918 with rheumatic fever and had been nursed there by his mother, a member of Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps.

He was the son of Edward and Elizabeth Annie Markwick, of "Broadfields," Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham and is buried in Awoingt British Cemetery, France.