Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Second Lieutenant E. L. Jarvis, Hampshire Regiment, late Hampshire Yeomanry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 4 September 1918

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. E. L. Jarvis.); Memorial Plaque (Edwin Leonard Jarvis) nearly extremely fine (3) £120-£160

Edwin Leonard Jarvis was born in Southwark, London, in 1896 and attested for the Hampshire Yeomanry (Territorial Force) at Basingstoke on 10 February 1914. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front form 24 June 1916 to 15 January 1917, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, on 27 June 1917. He served with the 2nd Battalion back on the Western Front from 254 August 1918, and was killed in action at Hill 63 on 4 September 1918. He is buried in Strand Military Cemetery, Ploegsteert, Belgium.

Sold with copied service papers and other research.