Four: Private L. Pickles, 2nd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, late Royal Lancaster Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, S.A. 1901 (7139 Pte., Rl. Lanc. Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (4834 Pte., 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (4834 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.) together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (Leonard Pickles) the first with brooch-marks to obverse, nearly very fine, otherwise nearly extremely fine (5) £160-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection formed by Peter Wardrop.

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Leonard Pickles died of wounds on 12 November 1914, in the Ypres Salient. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.