Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Lieutenant John Tyrrell Champion Fallowes, Suffolk Regiment, killed in action, France/Flanders, 15 September 1916

1914-15 Star (Lieut., Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) in damaged card boxes of issue; Memorial Plaque (John Tyrrell Champion Fallowes) in card envelope of issue, extremely fine (4) £350-400

John Tyrrell Champion Fallowes was the son of The Rev. John Prince Fallowes, M.A. and Agnes Fallowes of Heene Rectory, Worthing, Sussex. He was educated at Haileybury College and Cambridge University. Whilst at the latter, he served in the Cavalry Officer Training Corps. Living in Canada when war broke out, he enlisted as a Private in the 4th Canadian Infantry. As such, he came to England with the first Canadian Contingent and was one of the first from the contingent to obtain a commission in the British Army. As a Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion Suffolk Regiment he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war, going up to the front in August 1915 and seeing action at the Battle of Loos. A former commanding officer wrote of him, ‘He is a very good and hard working officer, full of energy, and always ready for any service of danger.’

Lieutenant Fallowes was killed in action on 15 September 1916, aged 25 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. With named medal forwarding slip and copied research including m.i.c. and a portrait photograph of the recipient.