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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 785

'Captain Gerald Wyatt Greenwood, R.F.A., the son of Mr. R. Greenwood, J.P., and Mrs. Greenwood, The Gables, Preston Newroad, died in hospital at Leicester on Sunday. Captain Greenwood was recovering from wounds when he contracted influenza, this being followed by pneumonia … He went to Egypt in 1915, and from thence to Gallipoli. At the time he held the rank of Lieutenant. On the evacuation of the peninsula, he was sent back to Egypt. He was drafted to France in 1917 and took part in many engagements. Five months ago, he was slightly wounded, and the day previous to the fall of Cambrai, he was severely wounded. After treatment at a dressing station he was removed to base, and afterwards transferred to hospital in Leicester … '

The Blackburn Times, 23 November 1918, refers.

Pair: Captain G. W. Greenwood, 'B' Battery, 210th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, who died of wounds - complicated by pneumonia - in November 1918

British War and Victory Medals (Capt. G. A. Greenwood), together with his Memorial Plaque (Gerald Wyatt Greenwood), the second harshly cleaned and with edge bruising, otherwise very fine (3)

Gerald Wyatt Greenwood was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery in September 1914.

The Blackburn Times, continues:

'In civil life he was in business as a cotton manufacturer, being a member of the firm of Greenwood Bros. Ltd., The flags on the mills and on St. Silas's Conservative Club were placed at half-mast out of respect. His name is on the Roll of Honour at St. Silas's Church. He leaves a widow, who, before her marriage, was Miss Florence Birtwhistle, the daughter of Mr. William Birtwhistle, J.P.'

Greenwood was buried in Southport (Duke Street), Cemetery; the whereabouts of his 1914-15 Star remains unknown.


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