Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain J. C. Ludlow, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who died of wounds received at Les Boeufs in December 1916, having already twice been wounded in earlier actions

1914 Star, with clasp (2 Lieut., R. Innis. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), extremely fine (3) £500-600

John Coape Ludlow was born in September 1894, the son of Major L. C. Ludlow, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, of Beech Green Park, Withyham, Sussex, and the granson of Major-General H. Coape-Smith.

Educated at Marlborough College and Sandhurst, he was commissioned into his father’s old regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant in August 1914 and joined the 2nd Battalion in Belgium in the following month. He was subsequently wounded during an attack to regain lost trenches on the edge of Ploegsteert Wood on 7 November 1914, one of two desperate assaults, both of which were repulsed with a total loss of 10 killed and 70 wounded.

Ludlow was again wounded at Richebourg L’Avoue on 15 May 1915, but returned to France in the following year with an appointment as Captain in the 1st Battalion, and was mortally wounded at Les Boeufs on 7 December 1916. He died on the 15th, aged 22 years, and was buried in the St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen.