WWI Casualty Pair 1st Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Battle of Ypes

A War and Victory medal issued to 1406 Private Earnest  Arnold Williams of the 1st battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Williams of Balsall Heath Road, Birmingham died on April 26th 1915 aged 25 and is commemorated on the Ypres Menin Gate memorial.

Given the date, unit and location of his memorial – The Menin Gate records names of the fallen with no known graves – it is likely that Williams was killed during the battle for the village of St Julien which was fought between April 24th and May 5th involving units that included the 1st Battalion Royal Warcwickshire Regiment. According to his Medal Index Card he landed in France on 22nd August 1914 and was also entitled to the 1914 Star.

The medals have their original ribbons but the war medal (particularly the reverse) has suffered from some over enthusiastic cleaning in the past leaving it with scratches across its surface.

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