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Pair: Private J. W. Milnes, 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, who died in France on 5 May 1917
British War and Victory Medals (39585 Pte., Bedf. R.); Memorial Plaque (John Wheatley Milnes) medals and plaque in a leather display case, extremely fine (3) £100-140
John Wheatley Milnes was born and lived in Scarborough, North Yorkshire and enlisted at Chiswick, Middlesex. Serving with the 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, he died in France on 5 May 1917, aged 26 years. He was buried in the Calais Southern Cemetery.
With a Silver War Badge having an enamelled centre, reverse privately engraved, ‘To Peggy from Jack’.
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