Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant F. L. Younghusband, 8th Battalion (90th Winnipeg Rifles), Canadian Infantry - “The Little Black Devils”, who was killed in action the Western Front on 26 September 1916

1914-15 Star (81863 Pte. F. L. Younghusband, 8/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (81863 Sjt. F. L. Younghusband, 8-Can. Inf.); Memorial Plaque (Francis Lloyd Younghusband); Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., ‘81863 Sgt. F. L. Younghusband’; together with the recipient’s Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers Tribute Medal 1914-19, bronze, unnamed, with an associated ribbon bearing a gilt star, medals extremely fine (6) £300-£400

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2013.

Francis Lloyd Younghusband was born in March, Ontario, on 29 July 1892. A Locomotive Fireman by occupation, he enlisted into the 32nd Battalion at Winnipeg in December 1914 and was embarked for England aboard the S.S. Vaderland in February 1915. Transferred to the 8th Battalion (90th Winnipeg Rifles) - “The Little Black Devils” - in France in May 1915, he attained the rank of Sergeant in August 1916, and was killed in action on 26 September of the same year. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial.

Sold with a gilt locket engraved on one side with crossed baseball bats and ball and inscribed on the other, ‘The Haldimand County League, Dunnville Champions 1905’, the interior with a photograph of a lady; and copied service papers.