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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 421

Three: Corporal G. Haines, Tank Corps, late Army Cyclist Corps

1914-15 Star (2726 L. Cpl. G. Haines, A. Cyc. Corps.); British War and Victory Medals (2726 Cpl. G. Haines, A. Cyc. Corps.), very fine (3)


Gilbert Haines served in France from 19 May 1915. The primary roles of the cyclists were reconnaissance and communication. They were armed as infantry and could provide mobile firepower if required. At the outbreak of the war, the cyclist battalions were employed on coastal defence work, but those units which went overseas spent considerable time on trench-holding duties and manual work. Transferring to the Tank Corps, Gilbert would have witnessed the success of tanks at Le Hamel and Amiens in August 1918.

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