Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant J. M. Kent, Durham Light Infantry, who died of wounds in August 1915

1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. J. M. Kent Durh. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. J. M. Kent.) extremely fine (3) £80-£100

James Maddison Kent was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1885. ‘He served his articles in the offices of Messrs. Ridley, Son, and Tully on the Quayside, and afterwards entered the office of Messrs. A. T. Watson, coal exporters, where he remained for six years. He was appointed manager to the Frachtcontro Gesellschaft Company, Guildhall Chambers, and remained in that position until the outbreak of the war. Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant into the 3rd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, on 15 August 1914, he joined the 2nd Battalion in France on 7 January 1915, and served until he died on 5 August 1915, of wounds received in the trenches at Hooge. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

Sold with various copied newspaper reports concerning his death and a copied portrait photograph.