Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Great War Memorial Plaque to 2nd Lieutenant W. G. B. Beaumont-Edmonds, 22nd London Regiment (The Queen’s), who was killed in action on the Somme in September 1916

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (William George Beaumont Beaumont-Edmonds), in its original card sleeve and registered envelope, addressed to his mother, ‘Mrs. E. Beaumont-Edmonds, 22 Hillside, Streatham Hill’, together with Buckingham Palace slip and a newspaper cutting, virtually as issued £80-120

William George Beaumont Beaumont-Edmonds, an ex-pupil of the Merchant Taylor’s School, who was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, in June 1909, enlisted in the 22nd Battalion, London Regiment (The Queen’s) in August 1914.

Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in July 1915, he was killed in action at High Wood on the Somme on 17 September 1916, and has no known grave. The son of Mrs. Elizabeth Beaumont-Edmonds of Stretham, London, he was 33 years of age and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.