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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 306

Three: Private J. Wyatt, Royal Fusiliers
1914-15 Star (11975 Pte. J. Wyatt. R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (L-11975 Pte. J. Wyatt. R. Fus.), very fine

Pair: Private A. Bumford, Yorkshire Regiment
1914-15 Star (10780 Pte. A. Bumford. York:R.); Victory Medal (10780 Pte. A. Pumford [sic]. York. R.), very fine

Pair: Private H.J. Robinson, Northamptonshire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (9794 Pte. H.J. Robinson. North'n.R.), nearly extremely fine

Victory Medal (9765 Pte. C.A. Stevens. L.N.Lan.R), very fine (8)

11975 Private John Wyatt, born London; served during the Great War with the Royal Fusiliers in the French theatre of war, from 19.1.1915.

39794 Private Horace James Robinson, served during the Great War with the 5th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment on the Western Front; he was killed in action, 30.11.1917, and on the latter date the battalion was engaged in the Battle of Cambrai, when 'a further reinforcement consisted of a company of the 5/Northamptonshire which managed to make its way back from the old British trenches south of Gonnelieu...only withdrawn from action at Villers Guislain when all their ammunition was expended' (Official History of the War, Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1917, Vol. III, refers); he is commemorated upon the Cambrai Memorial, Louveral, France.

9765 Private Charles Alfred Stevens, born Hounslow, Middlesex; served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in the East Africa theatre of war, from 16.10.1914; he died, 5.4.1916, and is buried in the Taveta Military Cemetery, Kenya.

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