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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 485

Victory Medal 1914-19 (2575 Pte. W. S. Howard, Suff. R.), good very fine

Walter Samuel Howard did not enter a theatre of war until 1916, or later, and was killed in action in Palestine on 1 May 1917, while serving in the 1/5th Battalion. During the period after the Second Battle of Gaza on 19 April, there were many trench raids carried out across the whole front with the aim of capturing prisoners for information, as well as destroying enemy works and material. It may have been on one of these raids that Howard was killed.

Aged 21, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter James Howard of Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk, he is buried in Gaza War Cemetery.


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