Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Scroll, ‘Coy. Qr. Mr. Serjt. Bertram Warner, Wiltshire Regiment’, together with Buckingham Palace accompanying slip, mounted in a glass-fronted framed, 58 x 29cm. (approx.), good condition £20-30

Bertram Warner was born in Downton, Wiltshire and enlisted at Devizes. Serving with the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment as Company Quartermaster Serjeant, he was killed in action at Achet-le-Grand, 21 March 1918, aged 23 years. He was buried in the Achet-le-Grand Cemetery Extension. Sold with copied diary entry and other research. Warner was killed in the opening barrage of the German Somme (1st Ludendorff) offensive.