Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (2) (John James Heward; Walter Wilson Knight), the first polished, the second heavily scratched on reverse, very fine (2) £70-£90

John James Heward, who was born in Ripley, Yorkshire was killed in action on the Western Front on 10 June 1917, while serving with the 11th Battalion, Prince of Wales’s Own West Yorkshire Regiment, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Walter Wilson Knight died on 15 February 1919, while serving with the Central Works Directorate, Tank Corps, and was buried at Hove Old Cemetery.