Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Robert Cadzow) traces of verdigris, very fine £100-£140

Robert Cadzow, an apprentice engineer at the Albion Motor Works, Glasgow, was born in Dunsyre, South Lanarkshire, on 31 July 1898. Educated in Dunsyre and George Watson’s Boys’ College, Edinburgh, he attested into the Motor Transport section, Army Service Corps in 1917 for service during the Great War. Transferring to the Royal Fusiliers Infantry Reserve, he was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps in November 1917 and died whilst training at R.A.F. Narborough as the result of an aeroplane accident on 22 January 1918. He is buried in Carnwath New Cemetery, South Lanarkshire.

Sold with detailed copy research and a photocopy photograph of the recipient from an extract in the Marquis de Ruvigny’s The Roll of Honour.