Pair: Private J. Lydon, Irish Guards, late Black Watch

British War and Victory Medals (12331 Pte., Ir. Gds.), together with related Memorial Plaque (John Lydon), this last bruised, otherwise generally good very fine (3) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to the Irish Guards.

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John Lydon was born at Old Pentaland, Midlothian and originally enlisted in the Black Watch at Perth in June 1917, aged 19 years. Transferring to the Irish Guards in September 1917, he was killed in action on 27 August 1918. Buried in Mory Abbey Cemetery, his personal effects were returned to his father in Scotland, among them part of a broken rosary and a damaged cigarette case.