Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War 1917 ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private J. A. Holden, Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action on 1 April 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (S-30010 Pte. J. A. Holden. 11/Rif. Bde.); British War and Victory Medals (S-30010 Pte. J. A. Holden. Rif. Brig.); Memorial Plaque (James Arthur Holden) extremely fine (4) £700-£900

Provenance: Michael Haines Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2002.

M.M. London Gazette 12 December 1917.

James Arthur Holden was born in Camberwell, London, and attested for the Rifle Brigade in Brixton. He served with the 11th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 1 April 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.