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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 392

Three: Private H. Wood, Labour Corps, late Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

1914-15 Star (3082 Pte. H. Wood, L. N. Lan. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3082 Pte. H. Wood, L. N. Lan. R.), nearly very fine (3)


Harold Wood served in France from 3 May 1915 with the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. It expanded to 21 infantry battalions for service at home and abroad during the Great War, one of which, the 1/4th (Preston Rifles) Battalion landed at Boulogne as part of the 154th Brigade in the 51st (Highland) Division in early May 1915 for service on the Western Front. In little over a month they saw their first action at the Battle of Givenchy and were heavily mauled, losing 431 men killed, wounded or missing. Harold later transferred to the Labour Corps, which contained officers and other ranks who had been medically rated below the "A1" condition required for front line service.

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