Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant A. D. Buchanan, Royal Army Medical Corps
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut A. D. Buchanan.) nearly extremely fine

1914-15 Star (Lt. P. D. du Plessis Cradock Cdo.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (2. Lieut. L. O’G. Acton.; 2. Lieut. D. I. Lyall.) very fine (5) £70-£90

Lionel O’Gorman Acton attested for the Royal Fusiliers and served with the during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 September 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Liverpool Regiment on 25 April 1917. He also received a Silver War Badge.

David Ivor Lyall was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Wiltshire Regiment, and served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from September 1915. He was killed in action on 18 October 1916, whilst attached to the 2nd Battalion; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.