Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant J. Largan, Royal Artillery, who died in France on 5 January 1940

1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (1017758 B.Q.M. Sjt. J. Largan. R.A.) last officially re-impressed, good very fine (3) £80-£100

James Largan was born in Dublin in 1898 and served with the 1st Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery during the Second World War in France from 1939 during the ‘Phoney War’. He died in France of heart failure, asthma, and bronchitis, and is buried in Gezaincourt Cemetery Extension, one of only 2 British soldiers recorded as having died in France that day.

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