Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private A. Prest, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who was killed in action at La Bassée, 20 October 1914

1914 Star, with loose clasp (7778 Pte A. Prest. K.O. Sco: Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (7778 Pte. A. Prest. K.O. Sco. Bord.); Memorial Plaque (Albert Prest) good very fine (4) £180-£220

Albert Prest was born in Middlesborough, Yorkshire, and attested for the King’s Own Scottish Borderers in the town of his birth in January 1902. He served with the Regiment in India, Burma, Aden and Egypt between 1903-1906. Prest served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion on the Western Front from 20 September 1914. He was killed in action at La Bassée on 20 October 1914, and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Sold with the following original documents: photograph of recipient in uniform; Small Book; letter from recipient to his wife from the Royal Barracks, Dublin; War Office Letter listed recipient as killed in action, dated 6 December 1914; named enclosures for all campaign medals addressed to ‘Mrs Wood, 23 Johnson Street, Middlesborough’ in her capacity as Guardian to recipient’s eldest son; recipient’s Marriage Certificate.