Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private W. Haimes, Royal Fusiliers

1914-15 Star (13117 Pte., R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (GS-13117 Pte., R. Fus.), one letter of surname double-stamped on the first, good very fine (3) £140-160

William Haimes, who was born in Bardsley, Yorkshire, and a musician by profession, enlisted in February 1915. Posted to the 25th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, he died on active service in East Africa on 8 February 1916. He was the son of Joseph and Hannah Haimes of Oldham, was 30 years of age and is buried in Kajiado Cemetery, near Nairobi, Kenya.