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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 758

(x) Four: Rifleman J. Beech, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who was wounded on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme and for a second time on 3 May 1917, when he became a Prisoner of War

1914-15 Star (R-1118 Pte. J. Beech, K.R. Rif: C.); British War and Victory Medals (R-1118 Pte. J. Beech, K.R. Rif. C.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R. (James Beech), light contact marks to the first three, very fine, the last extremely fine (4)

James Beech served in France with the 12th (Service) Battalion, K.R.R.C, from 13 August 1915. Having been wounded on the Somme, he transferred to the 8th Battalion and received a severe bullet wound to the right arm on 3 May 1917 during the Battle of Arras. He was captured on the same occasion and was repatriated from Germany on 5 May 1918, whereupon he was admitted to the King George Hospital, Stamford Street, London. In later life, Beech was awarded the Imperial Service Medal for services as a Telephone Mechanic in Birmingham (London Gazette 27 September 1960, refers); sold with his Silver War Badge, the reverse numbered '439070'.

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£140