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Three: Driver D. Elder, 84th Field Company, Royal Engineers, who died of wounds received on the Western Front on 23 February 1916


1914-15 Star (80232 Dvr: D. Elder. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (80232 Dvr. D. Elder. R.E.); Memorial Plaque (David Elder) dried adhesive to reverse of plaque, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4)


£120-£160


David Elder was born in 1895 in Abernethy, Perthshire and attested for the Royal Engineers at Dundee. He served with the 84th Field Company, R.E. during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 July 1915 and died of wounds on 23 February 1916. He was the son of Thomas and Jane Elder and is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West Flanders, Belgium.


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Three: Acting Sergeant E. B. Markwick, Motor Cyclist Section, Royal Engineers, who died of disease at 45 Casualty Clearing Station, France on 9 November 1918


1914 Star (28798 Cpl. E. B. Markwick. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (28798 A. Sjt. E. B. Markwick. R.E.); Memorial Plaque (Edward Baguley Markwick) mounted in a contemporary glazed wooden frame, mild corrosion/staining to reverse of second, otherwise extremely fine (4)


£140-£180


Edward Baguley Markwick was born in 1895, a native of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham and served initially during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 October 1914 as a Corporal in the Motor Cyclist Section of the Royal Engineers. He also served in the Special Brigade and the 2nd Signal Company. He died from pneumonia aged 22 at 45 Casualty Clearing Station, Awoingt, France on 9 November 1918. He had been hospitalised in 4th Stationary Hospital, France on 29 November 1916 with Impetigo and was a patient in Allerton VAD Hospital, Lichfield Road Sutton Coldfield from February 1917 until March 1918 with rheumatic fever and had been nursed there by his mother, a member of Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps.


He was the son of Edward and Elizabeth Annie Markwick, of "Broadfields," Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham and is buried in Awoingt British Cemetery, France.


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Three: Sapper S. H. Dunster, Railway Operating Division, Royal Engineers


British War and Victory Medals (322739 Spr. S. H. Dunster. R.E.); Service Medal of the Order of St. John, with additional award bar (5983 Pte. S. Dunster. Chatham Div. No. 11 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1927); together with the recipient’s St. John Re- Examination Cross, silver, the reverse engraved ‘168418 Sydney Dunster’ with an uninterrupted run of 23 dated Year Bars, 1914-1936, all inscribed ‘168418’ on reverse; South Eastern & Chatham Railway Centre of the St. John Ambulance Association Medal, bronze, awarded to ‘Sidney Dunster’ in ‘1917’ for passing 7 annual examinations in succession; South Eastern & Chatham Railway Centre of the St. John Ambulance Association Medal, silver, awarded to ‘Sidney Dunster’ in ‘1924’ for passing 14 annual examinations in succession; Southern Railway St. John Ambulance Association Medal, with 21 years top brooch bar, reverse inscribed ‘Sidney Dunster 1931’; National Fire Brigades Union Long Service Medal, with ‘Ten Years’ brooch bar (3908) bronze; France, Third Republic, Customs Honour Medal; together with 2 Auxiliary Fire Service lapel badges; National Union of Railwaymen 30 Years Membership badge, silver and enamel; 3 enamelled railway badges; and 2 bowling club medals, silver and enamel, generally very fine and better (lot) £200-£240


Sydney Hollingsbee Dunster was born in 1892 in Sittingbourne, Kent and died in 1985 in the Registration District of Swale, Kent.


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Pair: Private B. Newnham, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 24 February 1918


British War and Victory Medals (29744 Pte. B. Newnham. G. Gds.); Memorial Plaque (Benjamin Newnham) in card envelope, nearly extremely fine (3)


£80-100


Benjamin Ernest Fenner Newnham was born in 1898 at Guildford, Surrey and attested for the Grenadier Guards in 1917. He was killed in action in France on 24 February 1918.


A newspaper cutting with the lot states: ‘Much sympathy will be felt for Mr and Mrs. Newnham of 22 Springfield Road, Guildford, in the loss they have sustained through the death, in action, of their son, Pte. Fenner Newnham, King’s Company, Grenadier Guards. Pte Newnham was 19 years of age and was well known in the town. He was 6ft 4in in height and was the tallest recruit in Surrey when he enlisted eleven months ago. He was an old Sandfield School boy and was formerly employed by the L. and S.W.R. Company of Guildford. Deceased was shot through the throat while he was going into the front line trench.’


Private Newnham is buried in Level Crossing Cemetery, Fampoux, France.


Sold together with a studio photograph of the recipient seated with another soldier standing, both in the uniform of the Grenadier Guards.


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