Orders, Decorations and Medals

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Arnold Walker Sykes) in card envelope, good very fine £70-90

Captain Arnold Walker Sykes, York & Lancaster Regiment, entered France on 25 June 1917. Serving with ‘A’ Company, 9th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment, he was killed in action on 30 September 1917, aged 42 years. He was buried in the Bedford House Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, Belgium. Captain Sykes was born in Huddersfield, the son of John Henry and Emmeline Sykes and husband of Mary Sykes, of Netherleigh, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. With copied m.i.c. and casualty details.