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Three: Private W. Edwards, 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who served as a member of the original British Expeditionary Force, was wounded at the First Battle of Ypres, and was killed in action at Givenchy on 10 March 1915
1914 Star, with copy clasp (11009 Pte. W. Edwards. 1/K.R. Rif: C.); British War and Victory Medals (11009 Pte. W. Edwards. K.R. Rif. C.) extremely fine (3)
£200-£240
William Edwards was born in 1894, the son of Alfred Edwards, a Liverpool-born Tinsmith Cannister Maker and his wife Margaret. Unlike his eleven London born British siblings, William was born in Montreal, Canada, and his nationality in the 1911 census is given as Canadian.
A resident of Whitechapel, London, he attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in London in 1913 and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914. As part of the 6th Brigade in the 2nd Division of the original British Expeditionary Force, his Battalion fought at the Battle of Mons, the subsequent retreat and the operations on the Marne, The Aisne and the First Battle of Ypres during which B, C and D Companies were surrounded and overwhelmed losing a total of 1027 men either killed, missing or wounded in just 6 weeks. In relation to this period of fighting, the casualty list of 26 November 1914 lists Edwards among those wounded.
Private Edwards was killed in action on 10 March 1915 during a failed assault by the 6th Brigade on the enemy’s trenches at The Bluff, near Givenchy-lès-la- Bassée. In regards to this attack, which cost the battalion a total of 256 men killed, wounded or missing, the battalion war diary states, ‘if gallantry and determination could have commanded success it would have been theirs..’ He has no known grave, and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France.
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Three: Lance Corporal C. C. Rand, 1st Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment), who died from wounds received near Vailly during the Battle of the Aisne on 23 September 1914
1914 Star, with clasp (6380 Pte. C.C. Rand. 1/Wilts: R.); British War and Victory Medals (6380 Pte. C. C. Rand. Wilts. R.); Memorial Plaque (Charles Cecil Rand) edge bruise to VM and some staining, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £240-£280
Charles Cecil Rand was born in 1881 at Brixton, London, the son of Charles Joshua and Mary Rand. He first attested for the Wiltshire Regiment in September 1903 and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 August 1914.
The battalion was heavily shelled facing Mons on 23 August and suffered approximately 100 casualties at Caudry three days later. Following the retreat from Mons, the 1st Wiltshire moved forward to high ground east of Chassemy on 14 September, crossing the Aisne later the same day and entrenched in a defensive line under heavy shell-fire north-east of Vailly. The enemy attacked in large numbers on 20 September: ‘The War Diary records that the Battalion’s right was seriously threatened - enemy getting to within 50 yards - “during this time a lot of close fighting took place.” Enemy eventually driven back. Captain H. C. Reynolds killed, Second Lieutenant H. W. Roseveare mortally wounded, 1 other officer wounded, approximately 80 other ranks killed, wounded or missing. Relieved by 1st Norfolk and 1st K.S.L.I. (22nd) and via Vailly to billets at Braine.’ (British Battalions in France and Belgium 1914 by Ray Westlake refers.)
Lance Corporal Rand was among those wounded in the fighting near Vailly and died of his wounds in the Aisne Valley on 23 September 1914. He was the husband of Elizabeth Jane Darcy (formerly Rand) of 2 Sperricombe Cottages, Tenby and is commemorated on the La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.
Sold together with Buckingham Palace enclosure for Memorial Plaque and Record Office transmission slip for British War and Victory Medals - both previously mounted and in fragile condition.
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Four: Lance Corporal W. G. Cottle, 1st Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment), who died on 25 October 1914 from wounds received during the Battle of La Bassée
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (5600 Pte. W. G. Cottle. Wilts.: Regt.); 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (5600 Pte. W. G. Cottle. 1/Wilts: R.); British War and Victory Medals (5600 Pte. W. G. Cottle. Wilts. R.); Memorial Plaque (William George Cottle) in card envelope, good very fine or better (5)
£300-£400
William George Cottle was born in 1883 at Oxford. He attested for the Wiltshire Regiment on 19 September 1900 at Kilworth, Wiltshire and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Boer War. Following the outbreak of the Great War, he served on the Western Front with the 1st Battalion, as part of the 7th Brigade, 3rd Division, from 21 September 1914. He died of wounds at No. 6 Clearing Hospital, Bethune on 25 October 1914 - in the days before his death, his Battalion had seen heavy fighting at Neuve Chapelle during the Battle of La Bassée.
He was the husband of Sarah Ann Cottle, of the Causeway, Winterslow, Salisbury and is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery, France.
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