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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 452

Pair: Private A. C. Osborne, 2/21st Battalion, London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles)

British War and Victory Medals (653927 Pte. A. C. Osborne, 21-Lond. R.), the first with traces of official corrections to naming, better than very fine (2)

The 2/21st Battalion (The First Surrey Rifles) served in Palestine 1917-18. During the Third Battle of Gaza, as part of 181st Brigade, the Battalion was tasked with the capture of trenches to the south-west of Beersheba on 31 October. Upon the capture of the town, the Battalion made further advances to the north of Tell esh Sheria in November.

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