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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 366

(x) A good Great War Belgian Croix de Guerre group of five awarded to Warrant Officer Class 2 C. H. Linehan, Connaught Rangers, who was twice wounded on the Western Front

1914-15 Star (1382 C.Q.M. Sjt. C. H. Linehan, Conn. Rang.); British War and Victory Medals (1382 W.O. Cl. 2 C. H. Linehan, Conn. Rang.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (355 Sjt. C. H. Linehan, 13/(C. of L.) B. Lon. Regt.); Belgium, Croix de Guerre 1914-18, mounted as worn, together with two related cap badges, including a Connaughts' example by J. R. Gaunt, London, the second with officially re-impressed naming, generally good very fine (7)

Charles William Linehan was born in Poplar, London and enlisted in the Connaught Rangers in September 1914, aged 37 years; he had previously served in the 13th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment and 2nd South Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps.

Quickly appointed C.Q.M. Sergeant in the 6th Battalion, he arrived in France in mid-December 1915 and would gain further advancement - to Company Sergeant-Major - in November 1917. Official records also reveal that he was wounded in the head on 30 January 1916 and again - in the right shoulder and left knee - during the German Spring Offensive in March 1918. Evacuated home on the latter occasion, he was awarded Belgian Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 15 July 1918, refers) and demobilised in May 1919; sold with copied research, including the recipient's service record.


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