A Collection of Medals to The South Wales Borderers

A 1914-15 Star and Plaque awarded to Lance-Corporal Stanley Evans, 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers, killed in action on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916

1914-15 Star (25554 Pte. S. Evans, S. Wales Bord.); Memorial Plaque (Stanley Evans) good very fine and better (2) £200-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to The South Wales Borderers.

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Stanley Evans was born in Henllys, Monmouthshire and enlisted at Newport. Serving in the 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers, he entered the Balkan theatre of war on 26 November 1915. As a Lance-Corporal in the 2nd Battalion he was killed in action on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. He was buried in the Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No. 2, Auchonvillers, Somme.