Death Penny Plaque Canadian Private Lawrence North Staffordshire Regiment For Sale

World War One

Death Plaque

to

Private. Charles Joseph Lawrence 41593

1st/6th Battalion. Prince of Wales’s North Staffordshire Regiment

Born Montreal Canada

Enlisted at Stratford, Essex. Norfolk Reg. 9142

Arrived France 30th May 1915

Killed in Action 27th August 1918

Commemorated Loos Memorial (Stone 104) Pas de Calais

The Loos Memorial commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay, from the first day of the Battle of Loos to the end of the war.

1/6th Battalion TF – mobilised in 1914, served in France from 1915 to 1918.

The battalions that served in France took part in many of the major actions of the war including the 1915 Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the 1915 Battle of Loos, the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917 and the Battle of Amiens in 1918

Memorial plaque named as awarded 120mm (4.72 inches) cast in Gunmetal Bronze at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich circa 1920 identified by encircled WA on reverse.