Auction Catalogue

18 January 2023

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Lot

№ 620

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18 January 2023

Hammer Price:
£110

Memorial Plaque (3) (Robert Gosling; Henry George Jarvis; Frank Shepherd) traces of verdigris and scratch marks to reverse of first; the third polished with small drill hole at 12 o’clock, the first two good very fine, the third nearly very fine (3) £80-£100

Two men with the name Robert Gosling are recorded on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour: a Rifleman in the 20th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who died at home on 3 March 1918, and is buried in St. Nicholas Churchyard, Plumstead, London; and a Private in the 12th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, who was killed in action in the Balkan Theatre, on 11 July 1918 and is buried in Doiran Cemetery, Greece.

Two men with the name Henry George Jarvis are recorded on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour: a Private in the 1st/20th Battalion, London Regiment, who died of wounds (gas) on the Western Front on 5 August 1918, and is buried at Pernois British Cemetery, France; and a Private in the 37th Divisional Mechanical Transport Company, Army Service Corps, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 29 May 1918, and is buried at Bagneux British Cemetery, Gezaincourt, France.

There are several men with the name Frank Shepherd on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour.