Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Pair: Second Lieutenant E. S. Wilmot, 4th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, attached 2nd Battalion, late Sergeant, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, who was killed in action on the Somme, 13 November 1916
British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. E. S. Wilmot.) mounted on card for display, with identity disc and cap badge, generally good very fine

Pair: Private F. H. Wilmot, 260th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force
British War and Victory Medals (2015814 Pte. F. H. Wilmot. 260-Can. Inf.) generally good very fine (lot) £200-£240

Edmund Sacheverell Wilmot was born in McLeod, Alberta, Canada in February 1892. He was the son of Edmund Meade Wilmot and Agatha G. Wilmot, of Coldstream, Vernon, British Columbia. Wilmot proceeded overseas as a Sergeant with the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, and attached to the 2nd Battalion for service. Second Lieutenant Wilmot was killed in action on the Somme, 13 November 1916, and is buried in the Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, Somme, France.

Francis Hurt Wilmot was born in Normanton, Derbyshire in August 1894, and was the younger brother of the above. He served with the 260th Battalion as part of the 16th Canadian Infantry Brigade, Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force (C.S.E.F.) during the Russian Intervention. Wilmot died in Vancouver in June 1970.