A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties

Three: Private H. Daft, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 13 October 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (717 Pte. H. Daft. R. War: R.); British War and Victory Medals (717 Pte. H. Daft. R. War. R.); Memorial Plaque (Herbert Daft) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; together with the recipient’s aluminium identity disc, ‘717 H. Daft R. War. R. C. of E.’, extremely fine (4) £240-£280

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

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Herbert Daft was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, and attested for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment at Birmingham. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 August 1914, and was killed in action on 13 October 1914. He is buried in Meteren Military Cemetery, France.

Sold together with a Royal Warwickshire Regiment silver sweetheart brooch; a small portrait photograph of the recipient mounted in a large ‘patriotic’ glazed frame; and copied research, including a newspaper cutting that notes that the widow was left with an infant child, born since her husband went away.

Please note that this lot is not suitable for shipping, but can be hand delivered within mainland Britain by prior arrangement with Christopher Mellor-Hill.