Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant A. Flawn, Royal Field Artillery, who died on the Western Front on 9 September 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (251 Sjt. A. Flawn. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (251 Sjt. A. Flawn. R.A.); Memorial Plaque (Albert Flawn) the plaque with two small drill holes at 12 o’clock and one at 6 o’clock, otherwise good very fine (4) £200-£240

Albert Flawn was born in Derby in 1881 and attested for the Royal Field Artillery at Northampton on 28 June 1904. He was promoted Bombardier on 18 May 1908, and Corporal on 12 June 1911, and served as a Sergeant with 32nd Brigade during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 August 1914. He died on active service on 9 September 1914. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on la Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.

Sold with the recipient’s Soldier’s Small Book.