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A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties, Part 3 226 Pair: Private T. G. Harrison, Hampshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 21 October 1918


British War and Victory Medals (28649 Pte. T. G. Harrison. Hamps. R.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Greville Harrison) in card envelope, good very fine (3)


£100-£140


Thomas Greville Harrison was born near Birmingham in 1899, and resided in Sutton Coldfield, where his father was the sometime Mayor. He attested there for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment at Birmingham, before transferring to the Hampshire Regiment, and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. ‘Going to France on Easter Monday 1918, he was in hospital at the end of April with shell shock and concussion. After recovering he rejoined his regiment about two months ago and was killed in action on 21 October 1918. His Commanding Officer writes that “he was a gallant soldier and a true son of Britain”.’ (newspaper cutting refers).


Harrison is buried in St. Vaast Communal Cemetery Extension, France. He is also commemorated on the Sutton Coldfield War Memorial, which was unveiled during his father’s term as Mayor.


Sold with copied research.


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Three: Private J. Talbot, South Staffordshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 24 November 1915


1914-15 Star (12434 Pte. J. Talbot. S. Staff: R.); British War and Victory Medals (12434 Pte. J. Talbot. S. Staff. R.) without card boxes of issue, but in outer OHMS transmission envelope, addressed to ‘Mr. G. Ireson, Lodge Hill, ,Chase Terrace, Nr. Walsall, Staffs’; Memorial Plaque (James Talbot) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in outer OHMS transmission envelope similarly addressed, extremely fine (4)


£100-£140


James Talbot was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, and attested for the South Staffordshire Regiment at Lichfield, Staffordshire, He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 February 1915, and was killed in action at Cambrin on 24 November 1915, when the enemy detonated a mine under Gibbons crater, resulting in 25 men of the Battalion currently garrisoning the crater being killed. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.


Talbot’s medals and plaque were sent to his foster parents, George and Jane Ireson. Sold with the named Record Office enclosures for the three medals; and copied research.


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Three: Acting Corporal J. W. Baxter, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and Machine Gun Corps, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 10 April 1918


1914-15 Star (12633 Pte. J. W. Baxter. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) in named card box of issue; British War and Victory Medals (12633 A.Cpl. J. W. Baxter. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) in named card box of issue; Memorial Plaque (John William Baxter) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, extremely fine (4)


£140-£180 Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family.


John William Baxter was born in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire in 1892, and attested there for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 2 September 1914. He served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 September 1915, and subsequently in Salonika from 26 November 1915, where he was wounded (newspaper cutting with lot refers). Invalided home from that front with fever, he transferred to the Machine Gun Corps on 26 December 1916, and saw further service with them on the Western Front. He was mortally wounded on 8 April 1918, and died of his wounds two days later.


Lieutenant Lang wrote to the recipient’s parents thus: ‘Your son came to me as a Private in September 1917 and went through all the fighting with us at Ypres during the winter. We are awfully sorry to lose him, and you can judge what a fine soldier he was by his getting his two stripes almost at once. Why he hadn’t received promotion before I don’t know, as he was certainly the most efficient man I ever had in the section.’


Baxter is buried in Beacon Cemetery, Sailly-Laurette, France.


Sold with a framed ‘In Memoriam’ card, containing a portrait photograph of the recipient; and copied research.


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