A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties, Part 2

Pair: Private J. Evans, Cheshire Regiment, late Shropshire Yeomanry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 17 October 1916 British War and Victory Medals (2529 Pte. J. Evans. Shrops. Yeo.); Memorial Plaque (John Evans) housed in a contemporary circular wooden frame, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. John Evans, Cheshire Regt.’, embellished and additionally inscribed ‘previously of the Shropshire Imperial Yeomanry’, in OHMS transmission tube, addressed ‘Mr. J. Evans, 92 King Street, Wellington, Salop’; together with a Shropshire Yeomanry gold and silver tie pin, retaining pin missing from last, otherwise extremely fine (5) £200-£240 --- Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family. John Evans was born in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, and attested for the Shropshire Yeomanry at Acton Park, Shropshire, on 26 May 1915. He served with the Shropshire Yeomanry during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 August 1916, before being posted on attachment to the 13th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, on 19 August 1916, being compulsorily transferred to them a month later. He was killed in action on 17 October 1916, on which date the Battalion was in the front line in the Hessian Trench on the Somme. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. Sold with named Record Office enclosure for the two medals; a fine postcard photograph of the recipient; a school group photograph from when the recipient was a child; a large quantity of original letters from friends and relatives sent to the recipient whilst he was at the front, including a most poignant one from the recipient’s father expressing his concerns and urging him ‘not to take unnecessary risks’; other ephemera; and copied research.