Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant A. Spence, Gordon Highlanders, who was killed in action on the First Day of the Passchendaele Offensive, 31 July 1917

1914-15 Star (S-5617. Sjt. A. Spence, Gord. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-5617. Sjt. A. Spence, Good. Highrs.) good very fine (3) £120-£160

Alexander Spence was born at Inch, Aberdeenshire, on 4 February 1891, the eldest son of the Rev. Alexander Easton Spence, and was educated at Walker’s Academy, Aberdeen, then Stiring High School, and finally the Technical and Agricultural Colleges in Glasgow. Prior to the Great War he was employed as an Assistant Surveyor for Lanarkshire.

Spence attested for the Gordon Highlanders on 3 September 1914, and served with the 8/10th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 9 July 1915. He was killed in action 31 July 1917, on the first day of the Passchendaele Offensive; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card and Roll of Honour extract.