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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 779

(x) Pair: Rifleman A. W. Hutt, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who died of wounds suffered in the attack on 'Shrewsbury Forest' on 20 September 1917

British War and Victory Medals (R-38609 Pte. A. W. Hutt, K.R. Rif. C.), good very fine (2)

Alfred William Hutt was the husband of Maud Violet Emily Hutt, of 101 Waterloo Street, Camberwell, London. He served in France with the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, K.R.R.C., and was killed in action during the failed British assault on 'Shrewsbury Forest' which was hoped would clear the way for the capture of the nearby village of Gheluvelt; he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

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