Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Leonard Ord) heavy scratch to obverse, traces of verdigris, nearly very fine £50-£70

Leonard Ord attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 October 1915. He was killed in action on 24 August 1916, on which date the Battalion was involved in an attack on Delville Wood, suffering a total of 289 casualties; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.