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Three: Private D. Davies, South Wales Borderers, attached 117th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers, who died on the Western Front on 12 January 1917


1914-15 Star (22236 Pte. D. Davies. S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (22236 Pte. D. Davies. S. Wales Bord.); Memorial Plaque (David Davies) good very fine (4)


£80-£120


David Davies attested for the South Wales Borderers and served with the 11th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front fro, 4 December 1915. He died on 12 January 1917, whilst serving with the 117th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers, and is buried at Mendinghem Military Cemetery.


Sold with an original postcard photograph of the recipient and named Record Office enclosures.


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Three: Private T. Black, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who was killed in action during the Third Battle of Krithia, Gallipoli, 4 June 1915 1914-15 Star (17635 Pte T. Black. K.O. Sco: Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (17635 Pte. T. Black. K.O. Sco. Bord.) generally very fine or better


Three: Private W. Hughes, 7th (Service) Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, who was killed in action during the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25 September 1915 1914-15 Star (S-8099 Pte W. Hughes. Sea Highrs); British War and Victory Medals (S-8099 Pte. W. Hughes. Seaforth.) generally very fine or better (6)


£140-£180


Thomas Black was the son of Mr and Mrs T. Black of Wellsgreen Farm, Windygates, Fife. He served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borders in the Gallipoli theatre of war from 9 May 1915. Private Black was killed in action in Gallipoli during the Third Battle of Krithia, 4 June 1915, and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.


William Hughes was born in Bow, Middlesex. He served during the Great War with the 7th (Service) Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders in the French theatre of war from 31 July 1915. Private Hughes was killed in action on the Western Front, 25 September 1915, and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.


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Three: Second Lieutenant E. R. Kelly, Border Regiment, attached Lancashire Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 7 July 1915 aged just 17


1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. E. R. Kelly. Bord: R.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. E. R. Kelly.); Memorial Plaque (Edward Rowley Kelly), mounted for display in a contemporary metal cross frame; Memorial Scroll ‘2nd. Lt. Edward Rowley Kelly The Border Regiment’, light foxing to scroll, the medals extremely fine (5)


£500-£600


Edward Rowley Kelly was born in South Stoneham, Hampshire, in 1897, the son of Lieutenant Edward Kelly, R.N., and was educated at Hitchin Grammar School and St. John’s, Leatherhead, from where he won a scholarship to read history at Merton College, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Border Regiment on 27 January 1915, and served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 June 1915. Subsequently attached to the 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, he was killed in action by a shell during 3 days of heavy fighting to repel a German counter-attack at Pilkem, three miles north of Ypres, on 7 July 1915. During this action the battalion suffered 7 officers and 79 other ranks killed, and 10 officers and 220 other ranks wounded or missing.


Kelly’s Commanding Officer later wrote: ‘I have made inquiries from the N.C.O.s and men of his platoon and from what I can gather he was killed by a shell and was buried in the hole made by the shell which struck him. He was such a cheery youth and we all like him immensely, ands he got on very well with his men. He was very young and boyish- too young in fact for this work, but he was very plucky and did his work well.’ He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.


Sold with copied research, which includes transcribed extracts from the recipient’s diary and his last letter home, and a photographic image of the recipient.


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