Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. E. Hamilton, Border Regiment

1914-15 Star (16662 Pte., Bord. R.); British War and Victory Medals (16662 Pte., Bord. R.) good very fine and better (3) £100-140

John Edward Hamilton was born in and enlisted at Liverpool. Serving in the 1st Battalion Border Regiment, he was killed in action, in Gallipoli, on 21 August 1915. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.