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Auction: 13003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 65

Three: Major A.W. Ingles, West Yorkshire Regiment, Killed in Action During the 1st Battalion's First Engagement of the Great War, 20.9.1914
1914 Star (Major A.W. Ingles. W. York: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major A.W. Ingles.), toned, nearly extremely fine, with recipient's Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Alexander Wighton Ingles), both housed in slightly damaged leather cases (3)

Major Alexander Wighton Ingles, born Apsley End, Hertfordshire, May 1869, the son of the Rev. Canon David Ingles, Vicar of Witham; educated at Haileybury College; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, West Yorkshire Regiment, March 1892; promoted Lieutenant, February 1894; Captain, 26.3.1900; served with the Regiment in South Africa during Operations in the Transvaal from 30.11.1900 (entitled to QSA with clasp Transvaal); served as Adjutant of Volunteers, January 1902 to January 1907; promoted Major, 7.3.1914; served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 9.9.1914; killed in action at the Battle of Aisne, 20.9.1914, during the Battalion's attack on the Aisne Heights, their first engagement of the Great War- the Second in Command of his Regiment subsequently wrote to Ingles's widow: 'You will be proud to know that he died a glorious death at the head of his Company. The companies on the firing line were tricked by the Germans, who advanced under cover of the white flag, and then opened fire and enfiladed our men in the trenches. Your husband then shouted out, 'All who will not surrender follow me,' and retired fighting to the trenches on the left and was soon shot down and killed by a rifle bullet. He was buried where he fell with others of the Company.' Major Ingles was the most senior in rank and age to be killed during the Battalion's first engagement of the War, and is commemorated on the Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.

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