Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (William Henry Rouse); together with the recipient’s Memorial Scroll, ‘Guardsman William Henry Rouse, Grenadier Guards’, plaque polished, the scroll folded and creased, generally very fine (2) £100-£140

William Henry Rouse was born in Acton, Middlesex, on 22 December 1891 and attested for the Grenadier Guards. He served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 27 November 1917 during the battalion’s attack on the village of Fontaine-Notre-Dame, just short of Cambrai. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, France.

Sold together with the recipient’s Soldiers’ Small Book; and various correspondence including a letter from the recipient to his sister; and one to the recipient’s Mother from his battalion’s Chaplain, the Rev. S. H. Phillimore.