Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Edward McEwan) good very fine £60-£80

Edward McEwan served during the Great War as a Private in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, and was killed in action during the Battle of Coronel on 1 November 1914, when H.M.S. Monmouth was lost with all hands. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

One other man with the name Edward McEwan appears on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour for the Great War - a Private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 10 May 1915. However, since the plaque in this lot has a narrow ‘H’ in ‘He Died...’ it is more likely that it was issued by the Admiralty rather than the War Office.