Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private E. L. Gunn, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 8 September 1916

1914-15 Star (A-1042 Pte. E. L. Gunn. K.R. Rif: C.); British War and Victory Medals (A-1042 Pte. E. L. Gunn. K.R. Rif. C.); Memorial Plaque (Edward Lionel Gunn) in card envelope, good very fine (4) £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties.

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Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family.

Edward Lionel Gunn was born in St. Pancras, London, and attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps at Marylebone, London, on 19 August 1914. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 June 1915, and was killed in action on 9 September 1916. He is buried in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, France.

Sold with the recipient’s K.R.R.C. cap badge; copied record of service (which records numerous misconduct charges); an embroidered K.R.R.C. postcard and other ephemera; and copied research.