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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 194

Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (2) (Philip Frank Cross, Frank Palmer Thompson), first drilled at 12 o'clock; second with hook suspension on reverse, otherwise good very fine (2)

Second Lieutenant Philip Frank Cross, served with the 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front ; commissioned Second Lieutenant 29.8.1915; killed in action during the disastrous attack on Wood Lane, 22.7.1916, which began at 9.52pm but was soon brought to a standstill after machine-gun fire cost 421 casualties, almost all officers, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

203945 Lance Corporal Frank Palmer Thomson, served with the 3rd/4th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front; killed in action 7.7.1917, and is buried in the Sunken Road Cemetery, Fampoux, France.

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