A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties, Part 3 210
Pair: Gunner C. Wright, Royal Garrison Artillery, who was killed in action on the Western Front on the first day of the German Spring Offensive, 21 March 1918
British War and Victory Medals (9075 Gnr. C. Wright. R.A.) with outer OHMS transmission envelope; Memorial Plaque (Clifford Wright) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll, ‘Gunner Clifford Wright, Royal Garrison Artillery’, in OHMS transmission tube, addressed to ‘Mrs. D. E. Wright, 22 Withleigh Road, Knowle, Bristol’; together with the recipient’s wife’s Bristol Federation War Work Medal 1914-19, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘D. Wright’, extremely fine (5)
£120-£160
Clifford Wright was born in Warmley, Gloucestershire, and was employed by the confectionary company J. S. Fry & Sons Ltd. (now part of the Cadbury group). He attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery at Bristol on 2 November 1915 and served with the 156th (Oxfordshire) Heavy Battery during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 June 1916. He was killed in action on the first day of the German Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
Sold with named Record Office enclosure; Certificate of Death; a large period photograph of the J. S. Fry & Sons Ltd. War Memorial, on which the recipient is commemorated, in envelope addressed to the recipient’s widow; and copied research.
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Pair: Private W. Evans, Grenadier Guards, who was killed in action on the Western Front at Cambrai on 1 December 1917, on which date Captain G. H. T. Paton, of the same Battalion, was awarded the Victoria Cross
British War and Victory Medals (28707 Pte. W. Evans G. Gds.) both in named card boxes of issue; Memorial Plaque (William Evans) in card envelope, extremely fine (3)
£120-£160
William Evans was born in Chew Stoke, Somerset, on 3 July 1889 and attested for the Grenadier Guards at Southwark, London on 7 February 1916. He served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action at Gonnelieu, near Cambrai, on 1 December 1917, on which date the battalion suffered over 200 casualties, and Captain G. H. T. Paton, of the 2nd Company, was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his gallantry in rescuing the wounded under a withering fire. Evans has no known grave and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, France.
Sold with two postcard photographs of the recipient; a group postcard photograph; and other ephemera and copied research.
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Pair: Private J. Kindon, Welsh Guards, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 13 May 1918
British War and Victory Medals (3799 Pte. J. Kindon. W. Gds.); Memorial Plaque (Joseph Kindon) in card envelope, extremely fine (3) £80-£120
Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family.
Joseph Kindon was born in Bloomsbury, Middlesex, in September 1898, and attested for the Welsh Guards in Birmingham on 16 September 1916. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 October 1917, and was mortally wounded by gun shot to the chest on 9 May 1918. He died of his wounds on 13 May 1918, and is buried in Bagneux British Cemetery, Gezaincourt, France.
Sold with a photographic image of the recipient; and copied research.
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