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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 138

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Three: Private L. Seward, Gloucestershire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front

1914-15 Star (20269 Pte. L. Seward. Glouc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (20269 Pte. L. Seward. Glouc. R.), very fine

Pair: Private W. Seward, South Lancashire Regiment, who was killed in action in Mesopotamia

1914-15 Star (19061 Pte. W. Seward. S. Lan: R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (19061 Pte. W. Seward. S. Lan. R.), Victory Medal 1914-19, an erased example, good very fine (6)

Lewis Seward was born in 1891 at Buckworth, Cambridgeshire, the son of Charles and Jane Seward. Following a period of service as a domestic groom, he enlisted at Nuneaton and served in Gallipoli with the 7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment from 28 August 1915. It is likely that he was one of the replacements following the disastrous attack on Chunuk Bair three weeks previously, where the Battalion suffered 361 casualties. Transferring to the 1st and later 1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, he was killed in action in the front line trenches northwest of Le Sars, Somme Sector, on 4 November 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial; sold with copied MIC.

Walter Seward was born in 1894 at Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the 1911 census recording him as an errand boy for a boot shop. Enlisting at Nuneaton, he served with the 6th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment in Gallipoli from 24 November 1915. He transferred to Mesopotamia and was killed in action on 25 February 1917. He is commemorated on the Basra Memorial; sold with copied MIC.



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