Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Second Lieutenant H. W. E. Ainley, Royal Field Artillery, who died on the Western Front on 4 February 1917

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. W. E. Ainley); Memorial Plaque (Hefford William Ernest Ainley), all mounted with a Royal Artillery badge in a fine-quality leather display frame, extremely fine (3) £240-£280

Hefford William Ernest Ainley, a native of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on 25 July 1915 and served with ‘D’ Battery, 168th Brigade during the Great War on the Western Front. He died on 4 February 1917, from injuries sustained as a result of a fire in his bivouac on the night of 2-3 February, and is buried in Puchevillers British Cemetery, France.

Sold with the recipient’s Commission Document, dated 8 October 1915; War Office letter regarding the recipient’s death; and correspondence regarding the recipient’s grave.