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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 800

(x) Pair: Rifleman G. J. Cleaver, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, who was killed in action at Morval on 18 September 1916

British War and Victory Medals (7792 Pte. G. J. Cleaver, K. R. Rif. C.), good very fine (2)

Gregory Joseph Cleaver was born in 1890 at Bilton, near Rugby. Having seen service in India, Crete and Malta prior to the Great War, he served in France from 2 February 1915 with the 3rd and 12th Battalions, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Having returned home to marry his sweetheart at Ipswich, he was killed in action before the year's end just south of the Ginchy-Lesboeufs Road. Cleaver is commemorated upon the Thiepval Memorial.

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