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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 254

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (8232 Pte. P. Moore 1st Rl. M. Fus:), sometime cleaned, nearly very fine

Patrick Moore served in France with the Royal Munster Fusiliers from 13 August 1914. He was taken prisoner at Oisy on 13 October 1914, likely during the fighting retreat at the Battle of Mons. According to modern sources, 'such was the accuracy and force of their fire that the German advance was checked. The intensity of fire from the men of the Royal Munster Fusiliers with their Mark III Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Rifles, capable of 15 aimed shots per minute, led the Germans to believe they were facing an unusual concentration of machine guns'.

Having exhausted their ammunition and reduced to just 240 men and 4 unwounded officers, surrender was offered, the Regiment being encircled and having successfully held off no less than nine Battalions of the 2nd and 19th Divisions of the German Army X Reserve Corps for some 14 hours; sold with copied research, copied MIC and I.C.R.C. details.


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