Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Edward Castell) pierced at 12 o’clock, very fine £60-£80

Edward Castell was born in Henbury, Gloucestershire, in 1887, and attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment. In 1909, as a Corporal he received a Court Martial for drunkenness and was reduced down to Private. He served with ‘C’ Company, 1st Battalion, during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 August 1914, and was posted missing, presumed killed in action, on 1 November 1914, on which date the Battalion was in action during the First Battle of the Aisne - by the end of the battle, the Battalion was down to just two officers and a hundred other ranks. Castell has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.