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Auction: 13003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 69

Three: Lance Corporal J.P. Thomas, Liverpool Regiment, Killed in Action on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1.7.1916
1914-15 Star (16402 Pte. J.P. Thomas. L'pool R.); British War and Victory Medals (16402 Pte. J.P. Thomas, L'pool R.), extremely fine, with the following related documents &c.:
- The recipient's Great War Memorial Scroll, named 'L/Cpl. James Page Thomas Liverpool Regt.'
- Three named card boxes of issue
- Two named Record Office enclosures for the medals
- Photograph of the recipient (3)

16402 Lance Corporal James Page Thomas, born Cardiff, 1887; enlisted in the Liverpool Regiment, 2.9.1914; served with the 18th Battalion on the Western Front from 7.11.1915; promoted Lance Corporal, 1.1.1916; killed in action on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1.7.1916, when the Battalion was involved in an attack at Montauban: 'Assault pressed with great spirit and determination in spite of heavy shelling and machine gun fire. Whole system of German trenches including the Glatz Redoubt captured. Casualties estimated at just over 500' (War Diary refers); Thomas is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France

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£700