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Auction: 16002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 29

Three: Private A. James, South Staffordshire Regiment, Killed in Action on the First Day of the Battle of Loos, 25.9.1915
1914 Star (9303 Pte. A. James. 1/S. Staff: R.); British War and Victory Medals (9303 Pte. A. James. S. Staff. R.), nearly very fine (3)

9303 Private Andrew James, born Walsall, Staffordshire; enlisted in the South Staffordshire Regiment in 1913, and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 4.10.1914; killed in action on the First Day of the Battle of Loos, 25.9.1915, on which date the Battalion, as part of the 7th Division, suffered severe casualties amounting to 10 Officers and 78 men killed, and 9 Officers and 453 men wounded or missing, and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

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