Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Private L. Silitto, Middlesex Regiment
Victory Medal 1914-19 (G-89552 Pte., Midd’x. R.); Memorial Plaque (Louis Silittoe) this in card envelope of issue

Private A. J. Silittoe, East Surrey Regiment
Memorial Plaque (Andrew James Sillitoe) in card envelope of issue

Independent Order of Oddfellows Jewel, gilt and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented by the Good Samaritan Lodge N.L.D. to W. L. Sillitoe P.G. for Services July 1908’, complete with brooch bar; another medallet, silver and gold, reverse inscribed, ‘S. & F.B. S.S.A. C.L. 1912’; gilt plaque, bearing the cypher, ‘GM’, unnamed, very fine and better (6)
£100-140

Private Louis Sillitoe was born in Earlsfield, Surrey, lived in Wood Green, Middlesex and enlisted at Kingston, Surrey. Serving with the 20th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 29 January 1918. He was buried in the Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, Mory, Pas de Calais, France.

Private Andrew James Sillitoe, 7th Battalion East Surrey Regiment, was killed/died, in Fance/Flanders, on 28 November 1916. He was buried in the St. Hilaire Cemetery, Frevent, Pas de Calais, France.

Medals to Louis Sillitoe with Army Form B.104-82 informing Mrs Sillitoe of the death of Private Louis Sillitoe; named memorial scroll; forwarding slip for his British War and Victory Medals addressed to Mrs M. M. Sillitoe.

Medal to Andrew James Sillitoe with named memorial scroll and forwarding slip for his British War and Victory Medals addressed to ‘Mrs M. M. Sillitoe, 31 Michaels Road, Bowes Park, N.22’

The scrolls in card tube addressed to Mr W. L. Sillitoe at the above address.