WW1 & 2 pair. Summers. Royal Marines. #sherborne HNP (date) in exergue

HNP (date) in exergue

Clear date and designs

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

which doesn't make for the best photo but I didn't want to handle the coins

ReverseThe reverse shows the Paschal Lamb with cross staff and initial PP

WW1 & 2 pair. Summers. Royal Marines. #sherborne HNP (date) in exergueBWM 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