British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. LL. W. H. Tringham), good very fine £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Awards to the 21st Lancers.

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Llewellyn Watkin Howell Tringham was appointed to a Cornetcy in the 21st Hussars (afterwards Lancers) in April 1900 and was advanced to Lieutenant in September 1906. Glimpses of his subsequent services in the Great War may be found in the regimental journal The Vedette, in which he is described as having charge of a German officers’ prison camp in Wales in early 1915 and, by 1918, ‘charge of artillery horses, France’. So, too, of his fate on 2 November 1918, while attached to 51st Brigade H.Q., R.G.A. - ‘died of influenza following on from wounds’. One of just 12 officers of the 21st Lancers to die on active service in the Great War, he is buried in the St. Sever Cemetery Extension in Rouen; sold with copied research, including what is believed to be a portrait photograph of Tringham in uniform.