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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 484

Suffolk Regiment

Four: Corporal S. A. Tricker, 1/5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment

1914-15 Star (1240 Pte. S.A. Tricker, Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1240 Cpl. S. A. Tircker, Suff. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (240089 Cpl.-L. Sjt. S. A. Tricker, 5/Suff. R.), scratch to reverse of the first, good very fine (4)

Stanley Arthur Tricker first saw action in Gallipoli, where he landed at 'A' Beach in Suvla Bay on 10 August 1918. Two days later the 1/5th Battalion advanced on Kuchuk Anafarta Ova, the men being told they were merely participating in 'a sniper drive to push back stray Turks'. It was some drive, 11 officers and 178 men being killed or wounded, many of them feared as being shot on capture.

A costly tour of duty in the trenches on Hill 60 ensued and, by late October, the Battalion had suffered a total of 660 casualties. It was evacuated to Mudros - and thence Egypt - in December.

Tricker next witnessed active service in Palestine 1917-18, the Battalion forming part of the 163rd Brigade. At the Second Battle of Gaza, the Brigade was all but annihilated, the 5/Suffolks being the only battalion to come out relatively intact. At the Third Battle in November, the Battalion was more heavily engaged during the brigade attack against el Arish Redoubt and suffered 40 men killed and another 112 all ranks wounded; the battalion history, by Captain Wolton and Captain Fair, is especially detailed.

Tricker's MIC notes that he was at onetime attached to No. 14 Anti-Aircraft (Searchlight) Company, R.E.


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