WW1 CASUALTY MEDAL GROUP + PLAQUE - GSWA & SOMME - "DIED OF WOUNDS"

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A WW1 Memorial "Death" plaque and medal trio to a Royal Engineers casualty. Sgt. George Adlard died of wounds on Sunday 19 August 1917. He now lays buried in Villers-Faucon cemetery in the Somme, France. After serving in German South West Africa with Western Transvaal Rifles as Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant he joined the Royal Engineers (281st Army Troops Coy) for the campaign on the Western Front & France. The KGV British War Medal and Victory Medal are both named to 107971 A/Sjt. G. Adlard. R.E.

Adlard was posthumously awarded with the Mentioned in Despatches (M.I.D.).11 December 1917

Included is a small piece of shrapnel which was most probably removed from him and caused him to die of his wounds on 19/8/1917.

All named to George Adlard.

MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES

1914/15 Star for the Campaign in German South West Africa. Named to Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant for Western Transvaal Rifles.

His WW1 pair is named to ROYAL ENGINEERS.

The following is a scan from the Royal Engineers 281st Army Troops Company War Diaries. Herewith the entry noting Sgt. Adlard's death on Sunday 19 August 1917.

A small piece of shrapnel accompanied this lot of items. Most probably the piece which led to the demise of Sgt. Adlard on 19/8/1917 (Died of Wounds). It is fitted with an O-link to be worn on a neckchain.