Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private S. W. Desave, Middlesex Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 8 September 1916

1914-15 Star (G-8078. Pte. S. W. Desave. Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (G-8078. Pte. S. W. Desave. Middx. R.) all in named card boxes of issue; Memorial Plaque (Stephen William Desave) in card envelope, nearly extremely fine (4) £120-£160

Stephen William Desave was born at Hoxton, Middlesex, in 1898, and attested for the Middlesex Regiment at Shoreditch. He served with the 13th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and died of wounds on 2 September 1916. He is buried at Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L’abbe France.