A Great War 'Second Ypres' Casualty Trio & Memorial Plaque awarded to Lance-Corporal Herbert Redfern, 2nd Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, who died of wounds received at the Battle of Frezenburg Ridge on 8 May 1915, where his battalion suffered appalling losses but held its position, losing 914 men killed, wounded or missing. This was reportedly the heaviest single day of casualties ever suffered by the regiment, comprising: 1914-15 Star (11036 L.Cpl H. Redfern. R. Lanc: R.); British War & Victory Medals (11036 Pte. H. Redfern. R. Lanc. R.); Memorial Plaque (Herbert Redfern); Group loose, scrape to reverse of star, otherwise very fine or better (4). Lance-Corporal Herbert Redfern, son of Isaac and Mary Ellen Redfern, of 13 Walter Street, Manchester, was killed in action on 8 May 1915, and is remembered at the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.