Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant J. R. Vance, Manchester Regiment, who was killed in action in Gallipoli on 7 August 1915

1914-15 Star (343 Sjt. R. [sic] Vance. Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (343 Sjt. J. R. Vance. Manch. R.) very fine (3) £70-£90

John Robert Vance attested for the Manchester Regiment and served as a Sergeant with the 1st/8th Battalion during the Great War in the Egyptian theatre of War from 25 September 1914. He was killed in action in Gallipoli on 7 August 1915; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.