Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. H. Bennett, 1/7th London Regiment, who was killed in action in August 1918

1914-15 Star (1721 Pte. J. H. Bennett, 7-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1721 Pte. J. H. Bennett, 7-Lond. R.), together with related Memorial Plaque (John Henry Bennett), the first polished and with corrosion to reverse, thus fine, the others good very fine (4) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman.

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John Henry Bennett, who first entered the French theatre of war in March 1915, was killed in action on the Somme on 8 August 1918, while serving in the 1/7th Battalion, London Regiment. On that date, his unit advanced in a heavy mist to capture Mallard Wood, amidst much opposition, the start of three days of heavy fighting in which the 1/7th’s casualties totalled 12 officers and 300 other ranks. Bennett has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial; sold with a full account of the action from the Battalion’s war diary.