Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

One: Private F. Crew, 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, who died of wounds received on the Western Front on 23 November 1917

Victory Medal 1914-19 (36068 Pte. F. Crew. S. Wales Bord.); Memorial Plaque (Frederick Crew) 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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Frederick Crew was born in New Cross, London and attested for the South Wales Borderers at Shoreditch, London. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and died of wounds on 23 November 1917 at a time when his Battalion was consolidating gains made at Cambrai, France. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, France.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card and other research.