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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 103

The Great War Casualty Pair to Lieutenant J.K. Howard, Royal Flying Corps, Killed in Action 11.2.1917 British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J.K. Howard), the BWM unofficially engraved, extremely fine, with the recipient´s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque ´James Kelvey Howard´ (3) Estimate £ 80-100 Lieutenant James Kelvey Howard, born 1894, the son of Mr. J.B. Howard, of Sheffield; served during the Great War with the 5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment); Lieutenant (observer), 13th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps; killed in action when shot down and crashed whilst flying a BE2c on an Artillery Observation Patrol at Roclincourt, and is buried in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France.

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