Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant J. P. Newbigging, Royal Garrison Artillery, late Bombardier, Royal Field Artillery, who died at home on 12 December 1918

1914-15 Star (542 Bmbr. J. P. Newbigging. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (542 Bmbr. J. P. Newbigging. R.A.) unit officially corrected on VM, and the medals all somewhat later issues; Memorial Plaque (2) (John Prentice Newbigging) all mounted for display in a large wooden display frame, good very fine and a scarce example of two Memorial Plaques being issued for the same man (5) £140-£180

John Prentice Newbigging attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served as Bombardier during the Great War on the Western Front. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 16 March 1917, and subsequently served with them in the U.K. He died at home on 12 December 1918, and is buried in Winchester Old Cemetery, Hampshire.