Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private S. J. Michael, Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment), who died of wounds on the Western Front on 7 October 1916

1914-15 Star (14542 Pte. S. J. Michael. S.Lanc. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (14542 Pte. S. J. Michael. S. Lan. R.); Memorial Plaque (Samuel John Michael) some verdigris spotting to Memorial Plaque and solder marks to reverse, otherwise very fine (3) £80-£120

Samuel John Michael was born in Neath, Glamorgan, in 1882 and attested there for the South Lancashire Regiment. He served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and died of wounds on 7 October 1916, when his battalion was at Zollern Redoubt, and Hessian Trench, a few days after ‘D’ company had conducted a bombing raid on the enemy trenches. He is buried at Puchevillers British Cemetery, France.

Sold together with a related letter home by his brother (Private William Michael, R.W.F.) from Litherland camp and on embossed R.W.F. writing paper; and a 1915 embossed R.W.F. Christmas card.