Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private S. G. Leavold, South Wales Borderers, late Bedfordshire Regiment and Suffolk Regiment, who died of wounds on 4 December 1917 whist in German captivity

British War and Victory Medals (39569 Pte. S. G. Leavold. Bedf. R.); Memorial Plaque (Samuel Gutteridge Leavold); together with the recipient’s original card identity disc ‘21389 S G Leavold Suff. R. Cong.’, traces of solder to reverse of plaque, nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£100

Samuel Gutteridge Leavold, a general labourer, was born in Great Yarmouth around 1872, and is recorded in 1911 as living with his wife Lilian at 17 Dolman Square, Cobholm, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He initially served at home with the Suffolk Regiment before transferring to the Bedfordshire Regiment, and then the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Captured and taken prisoner of war on the Western Front, he died in German hands on 4 December 1917 and is buried at Quievy Communal Cemetery Extension, approximately 15 kilometres east of Cambrai in the Nord District, a part of occupied France which remained in enemy hands until October 1918.

Sold with copied research.