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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 345

Three: Private J. Wallace, Labour Corps, late Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

1914 Star, copy clasp (3126 Pte. J. Wallace, L. N. Lan: R.); British War and Victory Medals (3126 Pte. J. Wallace, L. N. Lan. R.), very fine (3)


John Wallace served in France from 22 September 1914. He would have followed in the footsteps of the 1st Battalion of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment which crossed from Southampton aboard the S.S. Agapenor and landed at Le Havre in August 1914 as part of the 2nd Brigade in the 1st Division. The Battalion did not take part in the fighting at Mons or Le Cateau but was involved in the retreat towards the Marne and suffered heavy casualties at Troyon on 14 September, with nine officers killed, five wounded, and 500 other ranks killed, wounded or missing.

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