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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 451

Pair: Captain A. J. Walter, 2/21st Battalion, London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles), who was mentioned in despatches for his services in Palestine in 1917

British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. A. J. Walter), with card box of issue, extremely fine (2)

Andrew John Walter was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the First Surrey Rifles in December 1914 and would remain likewise employed for the rest of the war, latterly as a Captain and Company Commander.

Embarked for France in June 1916, he saw action at Vimy Ridge and transferred to the Salonika / Macedonia in January 1917. Over the coming months he was employed in operations in wild and mountainous terrain on the Vardar front.

In June 1917, the First Surrey Rifles transferred to Palestine, where Walter clearly lent valuable service as a Company Commander, not least in the attack on Amman when the Battalion suffered over 200 men killed or wounded. He was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 16 January 1918, refers); the regimental history credits him - erroneously - with an M.C.


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