Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (2) (Frederick George Hill; Richard Redfern) the first with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope, nearly extremely fine (2) £70-£90

Frederick George Hill served as a Private with the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 3 July 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Sold together with the bestowal slip for his British War and Victory Medals, and two small unidentified photographs of a man and a woman, presumably taken from a locket.

Richard Redfern served as a Private with the Liverpool Regiment during the Great War, and later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 10 April 1918; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.