Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. Lavery, 3rd Dragoon Guards, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 6 November 1914

British War and Victory Medals (D-1906 Pte. J. Lavery. 3-D. Gds.); Memorial Plaque (John Lavery) extremely fine (3) £100-£140

John Lavery was born in Jarrow, County Durham, and attested there for the 3rd Dragoon Guards. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 October 1914 (additionally entitled to a 1914 Star with clasp), and was killed in action a week later, on 6 November 1914. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

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