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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 439

British War Medal 1914-20 (2537 Pte. E. Munday, Hamps. R.), edge bruising and polished, otherwise very fine

Ernest Munday enlisted in the Hampshire Regiment at Newport, Isle of Wight and first entered a theatre of war in 1916, or later.

He was killed in action at the Second Battle of Gaza on 19 April 1917, when the Battalion was sent up to reinforce the attack of the Norfolk Regiment against Tank Redoubt and Road Trenches on the Beersheba Road:

'A telephone line had been established to the 8/Hants who were on a ridge five-hundred yards from the objective; heavy casualties were confirmed. Further progress was being prevented by continued fire from machine-guns to the rear of the enemy front line trenches, and although artillery support was called for, the range was too great for the eighteen-pounder batteries' (Gaza 1917, by Martin Glen, refers).

The Battalion lost eight officers and 190 men killed and five officers and 165 men wounded on this day; Munday has no known grave and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial.


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