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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 707

(x) Three: Acting Corporal T. H. Beaty, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who was thrice wounded during the Great War

1914-15 Star (C-554 Pte. T. H. Beaty, K. R. Rif: C.); British War and Victory Medals (C-554 A-Cpl. T. H. Beaty. K. R. Rif. C.), mounted as worn, very fine (3)

Thomas Henry Beaty was born on 22 November 1894 at Hulme, Manchester, the son of Mary Ann and William Henry Beaty. Enlisting on 21 September 1914, he served in France with the 16th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (Church Lads Brigade) from 16 November 1915. He was wounded on 25 August 1916, likely following the attack on Tea Trench, and received a gunshot wound to the upper extremities on 24 April 1917. Recovering from his first wound, Beaty received severe gunshot wounds to the right thigh and right ankle on 15 April 1918. These ended his war, and he was discharged on 11 September 1918. He died at Barton, Lancashire in 1968; sold with a number of Church Lads Brigade Medals including a 'Winning Squad' bronze cross, a service cross in gilt and bronze, with 5 clasps, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907 & 1908, a silver Long Service Medal, hallmarked Birmingham 1913, and further silver Long Service Medal for 20 years.

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£140