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Auction: 16002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 20

A Good Sudan, South Africa and Great War Group of Seven to Private T. Lewis, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Killed in Action on the Western Front, 25.4.1915
Queen's Sudan 1896-98 (4455. Pte. T. Lewis. 1/R. War: R.); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (4455 Drmr: T. Lewis, Rl. Warwick: Regt.); King's South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (4455 Pte. J. [sic] Lewis. Rl: Warwick: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (3335 Pte. T. Lewis. R. War: R.); British War and Victory Medals (3335 Pte. T. Lewis. R. War. R.); Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, two clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (No. 4455 Pte. T. Lewis 1st Royal Warwickshire Regt. 1898), contact marks, very fine, the Great War medals nearly extremely fine, the pre-Great War medals mounted upon a florally engraved contemporary silver brooch bar; with the recipient's Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Thomas Lewis) in card envelope of issue, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; and two photographs of the recipient (8)

3335 Private Thomas Lewis, born Chichester, Sussex; served with the 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 25.4.1915, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

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