Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Lancelot Philip Charles) nearly extremely fine £80-£120

Lancelot Philip Charles attested for the Honourable Artillery Company on 7 September 1914, and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 January 1915. Advanced Warrant Officer Class II, he was mortally wounded on 13 November 1916 during an attack on the enemy positions at Beaucourt, ‘charging, single-handed, a group of Huns who were holding a piece of trench on our left’, and died of his wounds the following day. He is buried in Varennes Military Cemetery, Somme, France.

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