A collection of original Life Guards and Royal Horse cap badges to include GRV Household Battalion Brass x2, Royal Horse Guards with red cloth backing, includes four later QEII badges including one Staybrite. 13 badges in total all in excellent collectible order many complete with original collectors annotated notes

A 19240 SHROUDS OF THE SOMME framed memorial to those who fell at the Somme on 1 Jul 1916 created by ROB HEARD, comes with certificate of authenticity, frame size 40x24cm

A superb and poignant WW1 group of medals, death plaque and ephemera relating to a Scottish ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS Private killed in action 1918. Medals correctly named to Private William Towers S-14913 and matches the Dead Man's Penny and all supporting documentation. William was from Elderslie, Paisley, was killed 17th April 1918 and is commemorated on Tyne Cot memorial. The group includes both medals correctly inscribed, his A&SH Glengarry badge shown in the photos, the Memorial Plaque in original cardboard holder with accompanying Buckingham Palace letter, A cabinet photo of William and a portrait photo that was enclosed with the plaque, A memorial roll issued by Paisley councillors, a 1917 letter from William in France to his mother with enclosed silk hanky and silk postcard, the dreaded Army Form B104 notifying his family that he had been killed in action and letters from the War Office and Grave Commission relating to the location of his body. A superb collection similar to one so many families would have experienced, likely put away in a drawer in grief and only recently come to light, these have been consigned directly from descendants of William.