Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance-Corporal L. D. Sewell, East Kent Regiment, who was killed in action on the first day of the battle of Loos on 26 September 1915

1914-15 Star (G-1520 L. Cpl. L. D. Sewell. E. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (G-1520 Pte. L. D. Sewell. E. Kent R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Alan Cathery Collection of Medals to The Buffs, the East Kent Regiment.

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Lewis Decimus Sewell served with the 8th Battalion in France from 31 August 1915, and was posting missing presumed dead on 26 September 1915, the first day of the battle of Loos. The battalion suffered 24 officer and 610 other rank casualties including 161 O.R.s killed. He was aged 28, son of the late Decimus and Emma Sewell, of Halstead, Essex, and is commemorated by name on the Loos Memorial.