Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

One: Private A. Gilmore, 11th (2nd Gwent) Battalion, South Wales Borderers, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 16 July 1916

1914-15 Star (22688 Pte. A. Gilmore. S. Wales Bord:); Memorial Plaque (Arthur Gilmore) good very fine (2) £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers.

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Arthur Edward Gilmore was born in Cardiff in 1889, and attested for the South Wales Borderers. He served with the 11th (2nd Gwent) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and died of wounds on 16 July 1916, received most probably in the fighting for Mametz Wood between 7 and 12 July 1916, which cost the 11th Battalion over 70 men killed or missing and over 150 men wounded. He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card and a damaged photograph of the recipient.