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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 218

Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (4) (Alfred Burt; Charles Frederick Cook; Sydney Williams; Robert James Spanswick), last polished, otherwise good very fine, together with an interesting piece of Trench Art entitled ´Comrades of the Great War´ (4) Estimate £ 100-140 36476 Sergeant Robert James Spanswick, born Luscombe, Berkshire; enlisted as 27779 Private, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment; served with the 9th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 8.6.1917, and is buried in Croisilles British Cemetery, France. There are a number of men with the names Alfred Burt, Charles Frederick Cook, and Sydney Williams listed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission roll, one of the latter of whom was killed at the Battle of Jutland, 31.5.1916.

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