Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (2) (Frederick S. Beath; Herbert Henry Palmer) second in card envelope, good very fine (2) £60-£80

Frederick S. Beath, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Beath, Army Medical Department, was born in Stirling, Lanarkshire, on 29 July 1888 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Saltcoats, Saskatchewan, on 27 July 1916. Posted to the 210th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment), he died at home on 4 January 1917. He is buried in Moose Jaw Cemetery, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Herbert Henry Palmer was born in Essington, Staffordshire on 9 January 1884 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 10 January 1916. Posted to the 47th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment), he served during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 1 November 1918. He is buried in Aulnoy Communal Cemetery, France.

Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of Palmer.