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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 25

A 1916 'Somme Casualty' Group of Three to Private J. Garvie, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
1914-15 Star (S-4117. Pte. J. Garvie. A. & S. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-4117 Pte. J. Garvie. A. & S. Highrs.), extremely fine, with the recipient's Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (James Garvie) (4)

S-4117 Private James Garvie, born Govan, Glasgow, 1893; enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 8.9.1914; served with the 11th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 9.7.1915; killed in action, 15.9.1916, on which date the Battalion was involved in the attack on Martinpuich, where they led the assault with the 13th Royal Scots, and then bombed Tangle South and encountered enemy resistance on the Longueval-Martinpuich road. Garvie is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

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