Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Serjeant W. Alexandra, Royal Horse Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (51201 Cpl., F. By. R.H.A.); 1914 Star (51201 A. Bmbr., R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (51201 Sjt., R.A.), B.W.M. suspension repaired, fine and better (7) £280-320

M.M. London Gazette 11 November 1916.

Walter Alexandra was born in Woolwich and enlisted at Gloucester. Serving as a Corporal in “F” Battery Royal Horse Artillery, he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. As a Serjeant in “F” battery, 14th Brigade, R.H.A., he was killed in action on 24 August 1918, aged 26 years. He was buried in the St. Amand British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. He was the son of Margaret Alexandra and the late R.S.M. Walter Alexandra, R.H.A. of 25 Waldemar Avenue, Fulham, London. Sold with Masonic Medal inscribed, ‘Bro. G. F. Alexandra, No3028’; L.C.C. School Attendance Medal, G.V.R. named to ‘D. McNall’, and a Borough of Fulham Coronation Medal 1911, unnamed.