WW1 & 2 pair. Summers. Royal Marines. #sherborne Lettering: RESTITVTOR REIP

Lettering: RESTITVTOR REIP

HNP (date) in exergue

A little surface corrosion and toned almost black

who was killed in action on 21 October 1914 during the first battle of Ypres at Langemarck

He enlisted on 11/5/15 and served as a Lewis Gunner with the Warwickshire Regt in France

WW1 & 2 pair. Summers. Royal Marines. #sherborne Lettering: RESTITVTOR REIPBWM correctly impressed PO. 3171 S. A. S. SUMMERS. PTE. R. M. Alfred Shaw Summers enlisted towards the end of the war on 29th June 1918 He served with the Portsmouth division of The R. M. L. I. but saw no active service in a theatre of war, so the BWM is his only entitlement for WW1. Although he was demobilised on 19th Feb 1919 he did not receive his medal until 1940 (for reasons unknown) The Defence Medal indicates that he took part in Civil Defence