A Collection of Medals to the 20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion, London Regiment

Pair: Private W. J. Mabson, 20th Battalion London Regiment, killed in action, 1 October 1916

British War and Victory Medals (4406 Pte., 20-Lond. R.); Memorial Plaque (William Mabson) good very fine (3) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion, London Regiment.

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William James Mabson lived in Lewisham and enlisted at Blackheath. Serving with the 1st/20th Battalion London Regiment he was killed in action, France/Flanders on 1 October 1916. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Sold with copied extracts from The Journal, 10 November 1916 and The Kentish Mercury, 1 December 1916 in which he was posted as ‘missing’.