Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. D. Savidge, Honourable Artillery Comapany, who was killed in action on the Western Front at the Battle of Loos, on 5 September 1915

1914-15 Star (1703 Pte. J. D. Savidge. H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (1703 Pte. J. D. Savidge. H.A.C.-Inf.); Memorial Plaque (Jack Douglas Savidge); Memorial Scroll (Pte. Jack Douglas Savidge, Hon. Artillery Company) annotated in ink below ‘Passed on, September 5th 1915, age, 18 years.’, this last mounted on card, traces of adhesive to the edge, otherwise extremely fine (5) £240-£280

Jack Douglas Savidge, from Woking, Surrey, attested into the Honourable Artillery Company on 26 August 1914 for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the 1st (Infantry) Battalion from 29 December 1914. He was killed in action on 4 September 1915, during the Battle of Loos, and is commemorated on the Special Memorial at Maple Copse Cemetery, Belgium.

Sold with copied research and a copied photograph of the recipient in uniform, and an original Great War era brass Honourable Artillery Company Cap Badge, the reverse with a long slider fixing.