Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Cholmeley Symes-Thompson) mounted for display in a Wright & Son, Edgware, cross-shaped metal display frame, with outer laurel wreath bearing the dates 1914-1918, verdigris spots throughout, nearly very fine £100-£140

Cholmeley Symes-Thompson, a native of Kensington, London, was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, on 6 September 1899, and transferred to the Grenadier Guards (Regular Forces) as Second Lieutenant on 4 May 1901. He served as a Captain with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 August 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Ypres on 17 November 1914. He is buried in Zillebeke Churchyard, Belgium.