Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A British War Medal 1914-20 and related Memorial Plaque to Private W. Small, Monmouthshire Regiment, who died of wounds on the “First Day of the Somme”

British War Medal 1914-20 (3333 Pte., Monmouth R.), together with related Memorial Plaque (William Small), the first with edge bruise, otherwise good very fine (2) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Monmouthshire Regiment formed by Lt. Col. P. A. Blagojevic, O. St. J., T.D..

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William Small, who was born at Newport, where he enlisted in the 1st Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment, died of wounds on the Somme on 1 July 1916, one of 22 such casualties sustained by his unit.