Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Private G. Vedmore, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
1914-15 Star (10278 Pte. G. Vedmore. A. & S. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (10278 Pte. G. Vedmore. A. & S. Highrs.) very fine

Memorial Plaque (Thomas Vedmore) very fine (4) £100-£140

George Vedmore was born at Dixton, Monmouth in 1888 and attested for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 26 November 1906. He served with the 1st Battalion in India and then during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 December 1914. Subsequently serving in Salonika, he contracting Malaria, and transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 22 March 1919.

Thomas Vedmore, the brother of the above, attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps in October 1915 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from October 1916. He died of bronchopneumonia, following influenza, at No. 10 Canadian Stationary Hospital on 20 October 1918, while serving with the 25th Motor Ambulance Convoy, and is buried at Les Baraques Military Cemetery, France.