Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private R. Kerr, Scots Guards
British War and Victory Medals (16976 Pte. R. Kerr. S. Gds.) very fine

Pair: Private J. Gillies, Scottish Rifles
British War and Victory Medals (55970 Pte. J. Gillies. Sco. Rif.) edge bruise to BEM, very fine

Pair: Private J. Ireland, Scottish Rifles
British War and Victory Medals (37733 Pte. J. Ireland. Sco. Rif.) mounted as worn, good very fine

Pair: Private N. E. West, 16th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 13 June 1916
British War and Victory Medals (428056 Pte. N. E. West. 16-Can. Inf.) good very fine (8) £80-£100

Norham Eugene West was born in King Williamstown, Cape Colony, South Africa, on 7 June 1897 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at New Westminster, British Columbia, on 11 March 1915. He served with the 16th Battalion (Manitoba Regiment), Canadian Infantry, during the Great War on the Western Front from 2 March 1916, and was wounded and partially buried by a shell on 25 April 1916. He was killed in action on 13 June 1916 and is buried in Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), Belgium.