Orders, Decorations and Medals

Memorial Scroll, bearing the slip, ‘Currey, Pte. Walter William, 635627. 2nd/20th Bn. London Regt. 14 Sept. 1918. Age 42. Son of Mr and Mrs W. Curry of 167 Leyton Rd., Stratford, London; husband of Mrs W. W. Curry, of 5 Wingfield Rd., Stratford’, 506 x 405mm., framed and glazed; Memorial Scroll (official), inscribed to ‘L./Cpl. Clement Charles Banham, London Regt.; Large Photographs (4)- 20th London Regiment related, one framed and glazed; Book, Papers, Photographs & Cuttings related to Lieutenant M. E. Ball, R.A.M.C. and Major E. Ball, 20th Battalion London Regiment; Postcards and Photographs relating to the 20th Battalion London Regiment, contained in a folder; Modern Photographs of headstones relating to the 20th Battalion London Regiment, contained in a folder, generally good condition (lot) £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion, London Regiment.

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Clemant Charles Banham enlisted at Blackheath. He was killed in action on 21 May 1916. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

Major Eric Ball, 20th Battalion London Regiment, was wounded on 25/26 September 1915; Lieutenant Malcom E. Ball, M.B., R.A.M.C., died of wounds in Mesopotamia, 10 April 1916, aged 30 years. Includes the book, Elements of Human Physiology, by E. H. Starling, inscribed to ‘Malcolm E. Ball, West Court, Lewisham Hill, S.E. and Guy’s Hospital’.