Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance-Corporal H. J. Daw, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, later Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 25 October 1918

1914-15 Star (8531 Pte. H. J. Daw, D. of Corn. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8531 Pte. H. J. Daw. D.C.L.I.) good very fine (3) £70-£90

Henry James Daw, a native of Redbridge, Hampshire, attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 December 1914. Transferring to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he died of wounds on 25 October 1918, and is buried in Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, France.