Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private A. E. Hales, South Wales Borderers, drowned at sea when his troopship was torpedoed off Gallipoli

1914 Star, with clasp (13153 Pte. A. E. Hales. S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (13153 Pte. A. E. Hales. S. Wales Bord.) together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (Albert Edward Hales) good very fine (4) £200-250

Albert Edward Hales, born Wolverhampton, served with the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers. He died at sea when the troopship Royal Edward was torpedoed by the U-15, while en route between Alexandria and Lemnos on 13 August 1915, with the loss of some 1,000 lives.