A Small Collection of Great War Tribute Medals

Malleable Works War Fund Souvenir Medal 1914-18, by Fattorini, Bradford, obv. coat-of-arms, rev. inscription, ‘Presented by the South Durham Officials & Workmen in Memory of F. N. Urwin who made the Supreme Sacrifice in the Great War 1914-1918’, 25mm., 15.92g., 9ct. gold, hallmarks for Birmingham 1920, ring suspension, good very fine £100-140

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

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Frederick Norman Urwin was born in and lived and enlisted at Stockton-on-Tees. Serving with the 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment he was killed in action in France on 7 October 1916, aged 24 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Urwin of 8 Dixon Street, Stockton-on-Tees.