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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 307

Family group:

Three: Private T. Knight, Rifle Brigade, who was wounded on the Somme on 1 July 1916

1914 Star, with slide-on clasp (3183 Pte. T. Knight. 2/Rif: Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (3183 Pte. T. Knight. Rif. Brig.), good very fine

Pair: A. T. Knight

Defence Medal 1939-45; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with Bar (Alfred Thomas Knight), good very fine (5)

Thomas Knight enlisted in the Rifle Brigade on 30 November 1908, serving with the 2nd Battalion in France from 7 November 1914. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the 2nd Battalion advanced on the village of Ovillers across a wide expanse of open ground. Having suffered 119 casualties, the battalion was relieved at midnight. It was almost certainly during this assault that Knight sustained the wounds for which he was discharged on 31 July 1916; sold with copied research and MIC.

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£140