Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Gunner H. Dedman, Royal Artillery, who was killed in action in October 1917

1914-15 Star (19359 Gnr. H. Dedman, R.F.A.), note slightly differing number; British War and Victory Medals (19358 Gnr. H. Dedman, R.A.), together with related Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Harry Dedman), and two R.A. cap badges, extremely fine (6) £140-180

Harry Dedman, who was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, was killed in action in the attack on Polderhock Chateau, east of Ypres, on 9 October 1917, while serving in 52nd Battery, Royal Field Artillery. The son of Charles and Emma Dedman of Tollgate House, Claydon, Suffolk, he was 29 years of age and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Passchendaele.

Sold with original Record Office forwarding letters for the 1914-18 campaign awards, each of them addressed to the recipient’s mother.