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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 190

Victory Medal (7) (Capt. F.I. Harrison.; Lieut. C.J.A. Kysh.; GS-6860 Pte. W.D. Hardy. R.W. Kent R.; 997 Pte. W. George. R.W. Kent R.; GS-8055 Pte. E.N. Powell R.W. Kent R.; G-18521 Pte. A.V. Terry R.W. Kent R.; GS-3068 Pte. J. Wolfers. R.W. Kent R.), generally very fine or better (8)

Captain Francis Ingleby Harrison, born Islington, London, April 1883; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; commissioned Second Lieutenant Royal West Kent Regiment 3.11.1915; served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 28.7.1916; promoted Lieutenant 1.7.1917; Captain 8.5.1918; suffered gun shot wounds right thigh, left arm and right foot, died of wounds 8.5.1918, and is buried in the Aire Communal Cemetery, France.

Lieutenant Claude James Anthony Kysh, born St. Michael's, Barbados, January 1894; commissioned Second Lieutenant Royal West Kent Regiment 21.10.1914; served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 18.8.1915; suffered trench foot, November 1915, due to 'exposure on active service'; promoted Lieutenant 22.12.1915; died 27.11.1918, and is buried in Thorpe-next-Norwich (St. Andrew) Church Cemetery.

GS-6860 Private William Donald Hardy, born Brockley, Kent, 1897; served with the 6th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 14.12.1915; killed in action, 3.7.1916, on which date the Battalion formed part of the 34th Division during its disastrous advance on Ovillers, which cost the lives of 145 members of the 6th Battalion and a total of nearly 2,400 officers and men from the Division due to hostile artillery and machine-gun fire, the failure was attributed to inadequate flank protection and the lack of any element of surprise. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

997 Private Walter George, served with the Royal West Kent Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 12.9.1915.

GS-8055 Private Edward Norman Powell, served with the 11th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front; killed in action 8.4.1917, and is buried in Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Belgium.

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