Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant J. W. Lythgoe, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Somme in July 1916

1914-15 Star (Lieut., R. War. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.), cleaned and lacquered, good very fine (3) £300-350

Jeffery Wentworth Lythgoe, who was born at Northwood, Hanley, Staffordshire, was killed in action on the Somme on 22 July 1916, aged 26 years, while serving in the 14th (1st Birmingham) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. On that date, his Battalion was ordered to attack the Wood Lane feature, but was cut to pieces by machine-gun fire from High Wood, suffering nearly 500 casualties. The son of the Rev. George and Mrs. Florence Lythgoe, of St. Paul’s Vicarage, Tipton, Staffordshire, he was buried in the Caterpillar Valley Cemetery at Longueval, France.