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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 811

(x) Pair: Rifleman H. Nelson, King's Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action on 14 September 1914

British War and Victory Medals (5287 Pte. H. Nelson, K. R. Rif. C.), very fine (2)

Herbert Nelson was a native of Rochdale, serving with the 3rd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps under the aliases John Ewen and Herbert Nelson. Nelson landed in France on 13 August 1914 with the 1st Battalion and was killed in action near Verneuil. He is commemorated upon La Ferte Sous-Jouarre Memorial, Seine-et-Marne, France.

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