Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Great War campaign service group of three awarded to Acting Corporal W. Lynton, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who was killed in action in June 1917

1914 Star, with clasp (1885 Pte. W. Lynton, L.N. Lan. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1885 A. Cpl. W. Lynton, ), together with related Memorial Plaque (William Lynton) and a crucifix fashioned from used bullets and shell case brass, the base bearing a Loyal North Lancashire Regiment badge, the second with re-riveted (slack) suspension, generally very fine (5) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Ron Penhall Collection.

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William Lynton was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria but was a resident of Blackpool by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. He first went to France that September, where he joined the 1st Battalion following its costly action at Troyon earlier that month, and would have therefore participated in his unit’s attack on the enemy at Pilckem on 23 October, when some 600 prisoners were taken after a charge with fixed bayonets; later that month, too, in another successful bayonet charge at Gheluvelt, when heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy.

Lynton was killed in action on 9 June 1917, aged 23 years, while serving in the 8th Battalion. He left a widow, who subsequently remarried and settled in Doncaster, and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres.