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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 839

(x) Three: 2nd Lieutenant T. Seatter, King's Royal Rifle Corps, late Rifle Brigade, who was twice wounded in action

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. T. Seatter.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Thomas Seatter), very fine (3)

Thomas Seatter lived at 7 Fontaine Road, Sunderland and served in France as a Corporal in the 2nd Battalion, the Rifle Brigade from 13 August 1916. He arrived too late to participate in the attack on Ovillers on 1 July but was likely involved in the attack on Zenith Trench on 23 October, when the Battalion suffered 238 casualties. He continued to serve with a number of different units including three Battalions of the K.R.R.C. and was wounded in action twice; a gunshot wound to the right thigh on 24 April 1917 and a gunshot wound to the left shoulder on 17 October 1918; he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in 1918.

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