Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance Corporal C. Wareham, Dorsetshire Regiment, killed in action on the ‘First Day of the Somme’

1914 Star (8458 Pte., Dorset. R.); British War and Victory Medals (8458 Pte., Dorset. R.) extremely fine (3) £300-350

Charles Wareham was born and lived in Child Okeford, Dorset and enlisted in Blandford, Dorset. Serving as a Lance Corporal with the 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment, he was killed in action on 1 July 1916, the ‘First Day of the Somme’, aged 26 years. He was buried in the Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuile Wood, Somme, France.