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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 290

The Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque awarded in memory of Sapper. L. Leigh, 254th (Tunnelling) Company Royal Engineers, who died of the effects of a gas attack on 12 March 1918

Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Lewis Leigh), good very fine

Lewis Leigh was born at Maesteg, Glamorgan in 1882 and lived at Trevellas, Railway Terrace, Porthcawl, Glamorgan. Attesting at Pontewydd, Monmouthshire, with the 10th Battalion, South Wales Borderers on 9 January 1915 he entered the war in France on 3 December 1915. Transferring to the 254th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers on 1 June 1916. Leigh was killed by the effects of a gas shell on 12 March 1918, he is buried at Oxford Road Cemetery; sold together with copied research including service records, M.I.C. and medal roll as well as census data, Commonwealth War Graves details and an extract from Miners at War 1914-1919.

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Sold for
£90

Starting price
£30