Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal C. W. Floyd, East Kent Regiment, late Royal Fusiliers

1914-15 Star (PS-7533 Pte., R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (PS-7533 Cpl., R. Fus.) together with Memorial Plaque (Charles William Wood), this last pierced in two places, nearly extremely fine (4) £150-200

Charles William Floyd was born and lived in Bridstow, Herefordshire and enlisted at Hereford. He served initially as Private PS-7533 in the the Royal Fusiliers, entering the France/Flanders theatre of war on 14 November 1915. Later, serving with the 7th Battalion The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), he was killed in action on 18 November 1916, aged 22 years. He was buried in the Stump Road Cemetery, on the Somme, France. He was the son of Ferdinand and Louisa Floyd of Ross, Herefordshire. Sold with a ‘Red Cross’ cloth bag and copied research.