Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private W. H. Titterton, Army Service Corps, who died of wounds in France on 21 April 1918

British War and Victory Medals (DN2-230519 Pte. W. H. Titterton. A.S.C.); Memorial Plaque (William Hugh Titterton) extremely fine (3) £80-£120

William Hugh Titterton served in Mechanical Transport, Army Service Corps, attached 216th Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers, and died of wounds in France on 21 April 1918. According to an accompanying letter from a comrade to his sister, ‘Your brother was wounded by a flying fragment of shell about 4 o’clock in the afternoon and died about 6 p.m. the same evening.’ He is buried in Camon Communal Cemetery

Sold with various school certificates, a good quantity of correspondence regarding his death, Imperial War Graves Commission photograph of his grave, and memorial card.

For the medals awarded to the recipient’s father, Private F. Titterton, Gordon Highlanders, see Lot 128.