HALLMARKED SILVER INKWELL SET PRESENTED TO LIEUT. COL. H.S. BURN M.C., 4TH WELSH R.

Name: HALLMARKED SILVER INKWELL SET PRESENTED TO LIEUT. COL. H.S. BURN M.C., 4TH WELSH R.
SKU: WAR1026claz
Price: 895 GBP
Availability: InStock

** NEW ** Hallmarked silver (London 1908, tray minus cut glass 730g approx. weight) desk inkwell tray by George Jackson and David Fullerton, engraved: 'Presented to Lieut. Col. H.S. Burn, M.C., T.D. by the Officers of the 4th Battn. The Welch Regt., T.A. on the Occasion of his marriage January 1924', with cut glass and silver-topped ink wells.

NOW£895.00

Description

Harold Septimus Burn was born in Sunderland on 26 Apr 1879, the son of James and Annie Elizabeth Burn, serving as a Territorial Army officer and moving to Llanelli in 1911.

Burn joined the Welsh Field Company, Royal Engineers, embarking for Gallipoli with the 53rd (Welsh) Division in 1915, afterwards posted to Egypt and Palestine.

The award of Burn's Military Cross was Gazetted on 31 Dec 1918.

Burn also served as a Colonel during WWII.

He married Mary Frances Fleming at St Stephen's Church, Gloucester on 23 Jan 1924.

Burn died in Yarmouth on 25 Oct 1970.