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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 131

Three: Private W. Rumble, 13th Battalion London Regiment
1914-15 Star (3616 Pte. W. Rumble, 13-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3616 Pte. W. Rumble. 13-Lond. R.), good very fine, together with the recipient's cap badge

Three: Private E.C. Williams, 13th Battalion London Regiment
1914-15 Star (4162. Pte. E.C. Williams, 13-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (4162 Pte. E.C. Williams. 13-Lond. R.), nearly extremely fine, together with the recipient's cap badge

British War Medal (2) (1853 A.Cpl. J.R. Jenkins. 13-Lond. R.; 5168 Pte. S. Davis. 13-Lond. R.), nearly extremely fine (8)

3616 Private William Rumble, enlisted in the London Regiment, 27.11.1914; served with the 13th Battalion (Princess Louise's Kensington Battalion) during the Great War on the Western Front from 16.8.1915; wounded, 1.7.1916, on which date (the First Day of the Battle of the Somme) the Battalion were in support of the attack at Gommecourt- the leading waves did not reach further than No Man's Land, and the Battalion suffered 326 casualties; discharged, 22.3.1919.

4162 Private Edwin Charles Williams, enlisted in the London Regiment, and served with the 13th Battalion (Princess Louise's Kensington Battalion) during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 30.8.1918, and is buried in Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery, France.

1853 Lance Sergeant John Reginald Jenkins, enlisted in the London Regiment, and served with the 13th Battalion (Princess Louise's Kensington Battalion) during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 9.5.1915, and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

5168 Private Sidney Davis, enlisted in the London Regiment, and served with the 13th Battalion (Princess Louise's Kensington Battalion) during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 21.8.1916, on which date the battalion were in action at Halloy, near Bayencourt, and is buried in Maroeuil British Cemetery, France.

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