Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private H. J. Hooper, South Wales Borderers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 11 July 1916

1914-15 Star (21075 Pte. H. J. Hooper. S. Wales. Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (21075 Pte. H. J. Hooper. S. Wales. Bord.); Memorial Plaque (Joseph Hubert [sic] Hooper) in card envelope; Memorial Scroll (Pte. Joseph Hubert [sic] Hooper S. Wales Borderers) solder marks to the reverse of Plaque; Scroll mounted on card, otherwise extremely fine (5) £140-£180

Hubert Joseph Hooper was born at Hallow, Worcestershire, and attested for the 10th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, at Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire - the Battalion was raised at Ebbw Vale and Cwm, with the majority of men recruited from the Monmouthshire collieries and ironworks. Hooper served with the Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front on 3 December 1915, and was killed in action at Mametz Wood, Somme, on 11 July 1916, on which date the battalion suffered 3 officers and 29 men killed and 9 officers and 140 men wounded. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.