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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 761

(x) Pair: Lance-Corporal A. Burr, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who died of wounds received on the Steenbeek during the Battle of Passchendaele

1914-15 Star (R-4491 Pte. A. Burr, K. R. Rif: C.); Victory Medal (R-4491 Pte. A. Burr, K. R. Rif. C.), good very fine (2)

Alfred Burr was the son of Elizabeth and Edward Charles Burr of 149 Thornhill Road, Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey. He served in France with the 12th and 13th Battalions, King's Royal Rifle Corps, from 30 July 1915, suffering a slight wound whilst on duty on 10 July 1916, followed by a gunshot wound to the left hand on 12 April 1917. He was mortally wounded on 16 August 1917 and died the following day at 61st Casualty Clearing Station. Burr is buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium; sold together with an erased British War Medal.

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