Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Second Lieutenant W. A. Assinder, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, late Army Cyclist Corps, killed in action in the battle of the Piave, 16 June 1918

1914-15 Star (191 Pte., A. Cyc. Corps); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Italy, Altipiani Medal 1918, bronze, unnamed, very fine and better (4) £400-500

William Alfred Assinder entered the Great War as a Private in the Army Cyclist Corps. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he was killed in action in Italy on 16 June 1918, during the Battle of the Piave, 15-22 June 1918. He was buried in the Magnaboschi British Cemetery.