Three: Second Lieutenant W. H. F. Flowers, York and Lancaster Regiment, formerly 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, who died of wounds received in action at Mont de Lille, 15 April 1918

1914-15 Star (107221 Pte., 2-Can. M. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.); together with memorial plaque (William Henry Field Flowers) all contained in a contemporary mahogany display frame, with York and Lancaster Regiment badge to top, and 2nd C.M.R. badge to bottom, the Victory Medal polished and with verdigris, therefore nearly very fine, otherwise extremely fine (4) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars.

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William Henry Field was born at Bonby, near Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire on 16 September 1891, and educated at Stancliffe Hall, Matlock and St Cuthberts, Worksop. He went to Canada in 1912 and settled at Regina, and later in the Ohanagan Valley, enlisting into the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles on 6 August 1914. Served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from September 1915, and was invalided home suffering from pleurisy in June 1916, rejoining his battalion the following September. He received a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the York and Lancaster Regiment on 21 September 1917, joining his regiment in France in October. Second Lieutenant Flowers died at No. 77 Field Ambulance on 15 April 1918, of wounds received in action at Mont de Lille, near Bailleul, the previous evening, whilst serving with the 1/5th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, and is buried at Meteren Military Cemetery, France.

See Lot 1229 for the medals to his son.