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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 448

Pair: Private J. M. Whettem, 2/16th Battalion, London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles), who was killed in action in Palestine in December 1917

British War and Victory Medals (5152 Pte. J. M. Whettem, 16-Lond. R.), together with the recipient's Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (James Main Whettem), extremely fine (3)

James Main Whettem, a native of Croydon, Surrey, enlisted in the London Regiment at Westminster and first entered a theatre of war in 1916, or later. Taking part in the Third Battle of Gaza with 179th Brigade, his battalion attacked the Turkish trench system at Kh Kauwukah. A further gruelling advance through to the capture of Jerusalem followed, and shortly afterwards he was killed in action on 8 December 1917.

Aged 36, and the son of John and Mary Whettem of 82 St. Thomas Street, Portsmouth, he is buried in Jerusalem War Cemetery.


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