Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private A. W. Woods, East Surrey Regiment, late Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 20 May 1918
British War and Victory Medals (59082 Pte. A. W. Woods. R. Fus.) with flattened named card box of issue and outer OHMS envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. F. H. Woods, 23 Morley Avenue, Edmonton, N18’; and Record Office enclosure, extremely fine

Victory Medal 1914-19 (20824 Pte. W. Mallyon. E. Surr. R.) good very fine (3) £50-£70

Alfred William Woods was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, and attested there for service during the Great War on 11 December 1915. Posted initially as a Trooper to 2nd King Edward’s Horse, he transferred to the 6th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on 8 September 1917, and proceeded to the Western Front on 12 October 1917. He transferred to the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment two days later, on 14 October 1917, and was killed in action on 20 May 1918, whilst attached to the 63rd Anti-Aircraft Section, 12th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

William Mallyon attested for the East Surrey Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War (entitled to a pair), and also on attachment to the 12th A.H.T.D. A.S.C.

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