Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Edgar Francis Maitland) good very fine £80-100

Lieutenant Edgar Francis Maitland, 2nd/6th Battalion Manchester Regiment was killed in action on 24 September 1917. He was one of four officers and six orderlies killed when an enemy shell landed directly on a hut used as ‘B’ Company officers’ mess. Lieutenant Maitland was buried in the Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery. He was the son of Francis James Maitland and husband of Helena Maitland. With copied research - which includes a letter home written by brother officer Captain John Whitworth, reporting on the tragedy.