Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private W. Walker, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 17 August 1916

British War and Victory Medals (S-18276 Pte. W. Walker. Camerons.); Memorial Plaque (2) (William Walker; William Walker) both in card envelopes, nearly extremely fine (4) £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties.

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Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family.

William Walker was born in New Monkland, Lanarkshire, and attested for the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders at Airdrie, Lanarkshire, on 25 May 1915. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 February 1916, and was killed in action on 17 August 1916, on which date the Battalion was in the trenches at Bazentin-le-Petit Wood, Somme. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Sold with copied record of service and other research.

Note: Included with one of the recipient’s two Memorial Plaques in the lot is the plaque acknowledgement receipt, which should have been returned to the Royal Arsenal, London. Doubtless it was due to (presumably) the first plaque going unacknowledged that resulted in a second plaque being issued.