Great War Third Battle of Ypres casualty pair awarded to Private H.W.H. Haines, 1st/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment who was killed in action on 16th August 1917 and is buried in New Irish Farm Cemetery.
Pair: British War Medal and Victory Medal; (201757 PTE. H.W.H. HAINES. R. BERKS. R.)
Condition: Nearly Extremely Fine
Harold Wilfred Hebert Haines was born in Arborfield, Berkshire and resided in Reading, enlisting in Wokingham, Berkshire before seeing service on the Western Front as a Private (No. 201757) with the 1st/4th Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment).
He would be killed in action on 16th August 1917 and is buried in New Irish Farm Cemetery. He is noted as the son of Agnes Annie Haines of Lower Arborfield, Reading