British Victory Medal 1914-1919, Lieutenant Louis James Penard Laycock, ‘A’ Company, 7th (Service) Northamptonshire Regiment (Missing 13th of July 1917)

British Victory Medal 1914-1919, Lieutenant Louis (Lewis) James Penard Laycock, ‘A’ Company, 7th (Service) Northamptonshire Regiment (Missing 13th of July 1917)

Louis, also spelt Lewis, was born in 1892 in Highbury, Hampshire, to James Marshall and Louise Ellen. He was baptised on the 27th of July, 1892.

According to his medal card, he was trained in an Officer Training Corps and promoted to temporary 2nd Lieutenant on the 22nd of June 1915, before serving in France from 1915. He is noted as being on the list of Prisoners of War or Missing on the 13th of July 1917, while the unit was at Bayenham (possibly Blaringhem, France). He was marked as “Killed in Action” on the 31st of July, 1917 (the commencement of The Third Battle of Ypres, orPasschendaele). The medal card reads being killed in action on the 31st of July, 1919—his name is among those on the Menin Gate.

Correctly impressed:

LIEUT. L. J. P. LAYCOCK

Condition:

Good, some minor edge knocking