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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 437

Pair: Private A. H. Cusack, 2/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, who died of wounds in Palestine in November 1917

British War and Victory Medals (202509 Pte. A. H. Cusack, Hamps. R.), good very fine (2)

Alfred Henry Cusack was born - and enlisted - at Gosport. Drafted to the 2/4th Battalion, he first entered a theatre of war in 1916, or later and saw action in the Egypt and Palestine operations. Having been advanced to Lance-Corporal, he died of wounds on 23 November 1917, sustained during the same action as Sergeant Brimmell, whose awards are described above. Unusually, although he died of wounds, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial.

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