Auction Catalogue

19 April 2023

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 558

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19 April 2023

Hammer Price:
£70

Memorial Plaque (Geoffrey John Childe) light scratches, otherwise good very fine £60-£80

Geoffrey John Chillde served as a Rifleman initially with the 9th (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment during the Great War. He later transferred to the 12th (The Rangers) Battalion, and was killed in action, aged 36, on 27 January 1917. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.