Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant E. P. Gordon, 104th Wellesleys Rifles, Indian Army, who was killed in action at Ctesiphon on 22 November 1915

1914-15 Star (2/Lt. E. P. Gordon, I.A.R.O. 104/Rifles.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. E. P. Gordon.); Memorial Plaque (Eldred Pattinger [sic] Gordon); Memorial Scroll, ‘2/Lieut. Eldred Pottinger Gordon 104th. Wellesleys Rifles’, the ‘o’ in Pottinger corrected from an ‘a’, and additionally annotated ‘Killed in Action, Chesiphon, 22nd. November, 1915.’, all mounted for display in a glazed frame, extremely fine (5) £300-£400

Eldred Pottinger Gordon was born at Killyleagh, Co. Down, Ireland, on 13 April 1891 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, Special Reserve of Officers, from the Cambridge University Contingent, O.T.C., on 26 June 1912. He served during the Great War with the Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached to 104th Wellesleys Rifles, and was killed in action at the Battle of Ctesiphon on 22 November 1915, the first major engagement on the advance to Baghdad. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.