Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

Pair: Private G. E. J. Haines, Gloucestershire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (31477 Pte., Glouc. R.), with damaged card box of issue; Memorial Plaque (George Edwin James Haines) extremely fine (3) £100-140

George Edwin James Haines was born in Stroud and enlisted at Bristol. Serving with the 14th (Service) Battalion (West of England) Gloucestershire Regiment, he was killed in action on 22 October 1917, aged 29 years.. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. An extract from the Bristol Observer of 3 November 1917 reads, ‘An Eastville Hero’, ‘Mr and Mrs Haines, of Boswell Street, Eastville, have received the sad news of the death of their eldest son, George, of the Gloucesters. He was killed in action by a sniper, his death being instantaneous. His officer says he was a hard worker and a brave soldier ...’ Sold with Commemorative Scroll and copied research.