Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (2) (John Thomas Spencer; Henry George Tanner) good very fine and better (2) £60-80

John Thomas Spencer enlisted at Tamworth Staffordshire. Serving as a Lance Bombardier with ‘D’ Battery, 77th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, he was killed in action, France / Flanders, on 23 March 1918, aged 20 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.

Henry George Tanner was born in Bermondsey, Surrey and enlisted at Camberwell. Serving with the 18th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he died of wounds, France / Flanders, on 16 August 1918, aged 20 years. He was buried in Esquelbecq Military Cemetery.