Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private H. W. Abbott, 1/16th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), who died of wounds on the Western Front, 20 December 1915

1914-15 Star (3848. Pte. H. W. Abbott. 16-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3848 Pte. H. W. Abbott. 16-Lond. R.) with named card box of issue, with named enclosure, and with OHMS envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. S. J. Abbott, 498 Fulham Palace Road, Fulham, SW6’; Memorial Plaque (Harold William Abbott) last in card envelope of issue, with damaged portrait photograph of recipient in uniform, nearly extremely fine (lot) £140-£180

Harold William Abbott was a native of Fulham, London. He served during the Great War with ‘C’ Company, 1/16th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) in the French theatre of war from 2 September 1915. Private Abbott died of wounds on the Western Front, 20 December 1915, and is buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

For the medals to the recipient’s brother-in-law, see Lot 132.