WW1 16th Bn (The Birkenhead Bantams) Cheshire Regt Family Medals

WW1 16th Bn (The Birkenhead Bantams) Cheshire Regiment Family Casualty Medals.

The first group is awarded to 21818 Acting Corporal Frederick Wilfred Janes, British War Medal, Victory Medal (21818 Ches R), Bonze Memorial Plaque. ... Accompanied by a second Memorial Plaque "Alfred John Janes" GC Both plaques with solder marks to reverse.

21818 Acting Corporal Frederick Wilfred Janes, enlisted into the 16th Bn Cheshire Regiment, known as the Birkenhead Bantams, at High Wycombe and was Killed in Action on the 24th April 1917. His brother Private Alfred John Janes enlisted into the Royal Marine Light Infantry on the 21st March 1916 and was Killed in Action on the 26th October 1917, whilst serving with the RND