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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 237

Pair: Private P. Rolfe, Royal West Kent Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (G-15095 Pte. P. Rolfe. R.W. Kent R.), good very fine

Victory Medal (12) (29385 Cpl. G.D. Harvey. R. Scots.; 45178 Pte. J. Strachan. The Queen's R.; 230695 Cpl. P.G. Maitland. R. Fus.; 55373 Pte. A.J. Wood. R. Fus.; 3060 Pte. W.R. Atterbury. 13-Lond. R.; 19129 Pte. A. Dyson. E. York. R.; 1727 Pte. F. Ray. Ches: R.; S-27038 Pte. H. Upham. Camerons.; 203416 Pte. S. Humphrey. S. Lan. R.; 46228 Pte. J.A. Clayton. M.G.C.; 919785 Pte. T. Fry. 14-Can. Inf.; H.T. Goody. B.R.C. & St. J. J.), the seventh and ninth with replacement suspension rings, generally very fine or better (14)

G-15095 Private Philip Rolfe, served with the 6th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front; killed in action, 7.10.1916, when the 6th Battalion, serving on the Somme, made an 'Attack on Ration Trench- suffered heavily from bombardment before moving forward at 1.45pm, leading waves cut down in No Man's Land', and is commemorated upon the Theipval Memorial, France.

3060 Private Walter Ray Atterbury, served with the 13th Battalion London Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front; killed in action, 9.5.1915, and is commemorated upon the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

46228 Private Joseph Anthony Clayton, served with the Machine Gun Corps during the Great War on the Western Front; killed in action, 20.5.1918, and is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery, France.

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