Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private Edwin Sowden, Somerset Light Infantry, who was killed in action in France in November 1916

1914-15 Star (11182 L. Cpl. E. Sowden. Som: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (11182 Pte. E. Sowden. Som. L.I.) together with Memorial Plaque (Edwin Sowden) good very fine (4) £100-£140

Edwin Sowden was born in the Parish of St Paul’s, Bristol, in 1897. He enlisted in Bristol and was killed in action on 13 November 1916, aged 19, and is commemorated by name on the Thiepval Memorial.