A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties

Pair: Private A. D. Evans, Royal West Surrey Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 4 October 1917

British War and Victory Medals (G-25001 Pte. A. D. Evans. The Queen’s R.); Memorial Plaque (Alfred Dead Evans), with Buckingham Palace enclosure, mounted in a glazed display frame; Memorial Plaque, ‘Pte. Alfred Dean Evans, Royal W. Surrey Regt.’, similarly mounted in a glazed display frame, good very fine (4) £200-£240

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

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Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family.

Alfred Dean Evans was born in Presteign, Radnorshire, and was educated at Christ’s Hospital. He attested for the East Kent Regiment at Margate Kent, before transferring to the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment, and served with the 3rd/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action at Polygon Wood on 4 October 1917; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

Sold with a portrait photograph of the recipient, this housed in a contemporary silver-plated glazed frame; and copied research.