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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 379

Three: Private F. Preston, Essex Regiment

1914-15 Star (22575 Pte. F. Preston, Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (22575 Pte. F. Preston, Essex R.), the third officially renamed, nearly very fine (3)


Fred Preston served in the Balkans from 6 September 1915. Four Battalions of the Essex Regiment landed at Suvla Bay in August 1915 in an attempt to restart the stalled campaign. After hard fighting and the loss of large numbers of men to sickness, the Battalions were withdrawn to Egypt in December before the peninsula was finally abandoned. Fred was discharged Class 'Z' on 1 December 1919.

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