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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 86

A Great War Casualty Group of Three to Second Lieutenant R.H. Robertson, Hampshire Regiment, Late 1st Life Guards, Killed in Action During the Devastating German Counter-Attack at Cambrai, 30.11.1917 1914-15 Star (3419 Tpr. R.H. Robertson. 1st. L.Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. R.H. Robertson.), extremely fine, together with the recipient´s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Robert Hamilton Robertson) (3) Estimate £ 400-500 Second Lieutenant Robert Hamilton Robertson, Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion Hampshire Regiment, July 1917; killed in action during the devastating German counter-attack at Cambrai, 30.11.1917, which resulted in the loss of so many British guns and over 6,000 men taken prisoner; and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, France.

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£460