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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 457

Pair: Private W. Briggs, 2/10th Middlesex Regiment, who was killed in action at the Second Battle of Gaza in April 1917

British War and Victory Medals (3838 Pte. W. Briggs, Middx. R.), together with the recipient's Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (William Briggs), and War office campaign medal forwarding letter, dated 30 September 1921, with registered envelope, the second with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (3)

William Briggs was living at Charing Cross, London at the time of his enlistment in the Middlesex Regiment. He first entered a theatre of war in 1916 - or later - and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Gaza on 19 April 1917. On that date, the 2/10th Battalion stormed Sampson Ridge at the point of the bayonet and suffered heavy loss - around 180 officers and men being killed or wounded.

Aged 23, he was the son of William and Florence Briggs of 15A Peabody's Buildings, Charing Cross, London, and is buried in Gaza War Cemetery.


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Estimate
£100 to £120