Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (2) (Walter Sheen; Henry Edgar Dawdry) the first with Buckingham Palace enclosure in card envelope, generally good very fine (2) £100-£140

Walter Sheen initially served during the Great War with the 4th (Queen’s Own) Hussars, before transferring to the 15th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. He was killed in action on the first day of the German Spring Offensive, 21 March 1918; he has no known grave and is commemorated upon the Pozieres Memorial, France.

Henry Edgar Dawdry was born in Bethnal Green around 1882 and attested for the 6th Battalion, London Regiment. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 26 January 1917; subsequently captured and taken Prisoner of War, he died in captivity in hospital at Gelsenkirchen on 2 October 1918. He is buried at Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany.