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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 410

Montgomery and Welsh Horse Yeomanry

1914-15 Star (1409 Pte. P. Chandler, Welsh H.), good very fine

Percy Chandler originally served in the 1/1st Welsh Horse and landed at Anzac Cove in 1915.

Subsequently joining 25th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers (Montgomery and Welsh Horse Yeomanry), he was killed in action at the battle of Beersheba on 31 October 1917. This was a V.C. action for the Battalion, Corporal John Collins personally bayonetting 15 of the enemy and performed vital work in consolidating the position gained. As the Battalion did not play a major role in the subsequent fight for Gaza, the casualties of a solitary officer and 29 men killed in action, together with 190 all ranks wounded must have largely occurred on 31 October.

Aged 27, and the son of George and Annie Chandler of 'Pine View', Melton Road, Woodbridge, Suffolk, he is buried in Beersheba War Cemetery.


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