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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 413

Staffordshire Yeomanry

Pair: Private L. Turner, 1/1st Staffordshire Yeomanry, who died on active service in January 1918

British War and Victory Medals (3603 Pte. L. Turner, Staff. Yeo.), in their card boxes of issue, together with the recipient's Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Leonard Turner), extremely fine (3)

Leonard Turner died on active service with the 1/1st Staffordshire Yeomanry on 9 January 1918 and is buried in Kantara War Cemetery, Egypt.

The Staffordshire Yeomanry were part of 22nd Mounted Brigade, present at the First Battle of Gaza where they formed part of the Desert Column screen to the east of the town, far into the desert. Taking a similar role at the Second Battle, the Yeomen were heavily engaged but with just two men killed; Surgeon-Major Palmer of the R.A.M.C. was fatally shot while tending the wounded. Finally, at the Third Battle of Gaza, the 22nd Mounted Brigade served alongside the London Division in the key attack against Kh Kauwaukah on 6 November.


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