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Auction: 16002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 30

Three: Private A.G. Triptree, East Kent Regiment, Killed in Action on the First Day of the Battle of Arras, 9.4.1917
1914-15 Star (G-7914 Pte. A.G. Triptree. E. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (G-7914 Pte. A.G. Triptree. E. Kent R.), nearly extremely fine (3)

G-7914 Private Alfred George Triptree, born Camberwell, London; enlisted in the East Kent Regiment and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 25.11.1915; twice wounded, 6.3.1916 and 7.10.1916 (Kent Messenger refers); killed in action on the First Day of the Battle of Arras, 9.4.1917, on which date the Battalion, as part of the 12th Division, advanced 4,000 yards and captured 1,200 of the enemy, but suffered 2 Officers and 23 men killed, and 6 Officers and 149 men wounded, and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

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