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Auction: 17002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 173

Family group:

Three: Private B. R. Minchin, Grenadier Guards, who was killed in action in September 1916

1914-15 Star (23417 Pte. B. R. Michin, G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (23417 Pte. B. R. Michin, G. Gds.), note surname spelling, good very fine

Pair: Driver C. L. Minchin, Royal Artillery

British War and Victory Medals (134806 Dvr. C. L. Minchin, R.A.), good very fine (5)

Benjamin Richard Minchin was embarked for France in the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards in early November 1915 and was killed in action on 15 September 1916, aged 22. The son of Henry and Ellen Minchin of Burton-on-Trent, his name is commemorated in the Guards' Cemetery at Lesboeufs.

Charles Leslie Minchin, Benjamin's brother, served as a Signaller in the Royal Field Artillery.


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