£150 - £200
LOCAL INTEREST. A First World War Killed in Action medal trio with death plaque to 17479 Private Frank Lamb, 5th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry. 1914-15 Star, 1914-18 War Medal [17479 PTE. F. LAMB SHROPS. L.I"] and Victory Medal [17478 PTE. F. LAMB K.S.L.I"] and a gilt medal Oddfellows jewel, with death plaque 'FRANK LAMB'. Sold together with a small amount of photocopied research. Footnote:Frank Lamb was born in May 1881 at Longford near Newport, Shropshire, the son of a single mother, Clara Lamb. He married Sarah Ellen Pye at Newport, in 1903. The 1911 Census lists him as a coal salesman at Canal Wharf, aged 29, living with his wife and three children, at 4, Turners Lane, Edgmond, Newport, Shropshire. He died on the 25th September 1915, aged 34, and is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. His obituary in the Wellington Journal of the 13th November 1915 reads: "Pr. FRANK LAMB, Turner's Road, has been officially reported as missing since Spetember 25. He joined the 5th K.S.L.I in March last, and went to France in July. Locally he was widely known and very popular. For 16 years he had been manager at Edgmond Canal Wharf for the Lilleshall Company. His active association with the Oddfellowship in the Newport District raised him to the position of Grand Master."
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