Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sapper W. H. Battin, Royal Engineers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (9414 Spr: W. H. Battin. R.E.); 1914 Star (9414 Spr: W. H. Battin. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (9414 Spr. W. H. Battin. R.E.) nearly very fine ansd better (4) £200-£240

William Henry Battin attested for the Royal Engineers and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 September 1914. He died at home on 12 November 1918, one day after the Armistice, and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Pennycross (St. Pancras) Churchyard, Devon.