Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Aleck Mayson Sawyer) in fitted leather free standing case, extremely fine £100-£140

Aleck Mayson Sawyer was born in Birkdale, Lancashire, in April 1894. He attested into the Denbighshire Yeomanry for service during the Great War, and served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from 3 February 1916. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Machine Corps on 25 September 1917, he was killed in action, aged 23, on 13 December 1917 whilst serving with the 59th Company, on the Western Front. He is buried in Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, France.