A First World War Mons Casualty Group, awarded to LIEUT. E.(Edmund) SWETENHAM DURH:L.I., comprising 1914 Star with clasp 5TH AUG.-22ND NOV.1914, British War Medal, Victory Medal and Memorial plaque, loosely mounted in a glazed frame, the back set with Buckingham Palace Memorial slip and a label inscribed "Lieut. EDMUND SWETENHAM, 2nd Batt. Durham Light Infantry, Killed in the Great War Nr. ARMENTIERE, Oct.27th 1914", together with a framed Memorial scroll and Memorial slip, and a half length oil on canvas portrait of the recipient in No.1 Dress uniform with medal ribbons, 74cm by 59cm , in a gilt wood frame, also with a folder of research material.

Footnote :- Edmund Swetenham was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Durham Light Infantry after leaving Sandhurst on 19th April 1910. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1914 and sent to France with the 2nd Battalion on the 8th September. Less than two months later, on 27th October, he was shot and killed by a sniper while in the trenches near Rue du Pont de Bois, Armentières. The sniper also killed 2nd Lieutenant Harry Robert Vaughan and wounded two other officers.
Edmund is remembered with honour at the Ploegsteert Memorial. The oil portrait was commissioned after his death