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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 240

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Four: Lance-Corporal, late Bugler E. Paul, Somerset Light Infantry, who was killed in action with the 1st Battalion on the Somme, in July 1915, having already been thrice admitted to hospital during the campaign

1914 Star, with clasp (9187 Bglr: E. Paul. 1/Som: L. I.); British War and Victory Medals (9187 Pte. E. Paul. Som. L. I.), together with the recipient's Memorial Plaque (Edgar Paul), extremely fine

Pair: Pioneer S. Paul, 1st Battalion, Special Brigade, Royal Engineers, killed in action on 27 June 1916

British War and Victory Medals (128433 Pnr. S. Paul. R.E.), good very fine (6)

Edgar Paul, son of John Paul of Smalls Cottage, Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset served with the 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry in France from 21 August 1914. Having shared in their early actions, he was hospitalised on account of an abscess on 7 November but returned for duty in December, being promoted Lance-Corporal and serving during the capture of the 'birdcage'. Admitted again in January 1915 due to scabies, he returned to the line to see the Second Battle of Ypres and Frezenberg Ridge before being admitted to hospital for a third time, as a result of gas poisoning. Re-joining in June 1915, Paul would be killed in action on 6 July 1915, during the attack on Boesinghe. Whilst repairing captured trenches and digging communication lines, the 1st Battalion suffered intense shelling, suffering some 137 casualties. Paul is commemorated upon the Ploegsteert Memorial and the Norton Fitzwarren War Memorial, alongside his brother.

Sidney Paul was born in 1897, son of John Paul of Smalls Cottage, Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset. Having enlisted in the Somerset Light Infantry (No. 20241), he transferred to the Special Brigade, Royal Engineers and was killed in action on the Western Front on 27 June 1916. He is buried in the Puchevillers British Cemetery, his gravestone bearing the inscription 'Ever remembered by his sorrowing mother and father brothers and sisters' and is commemorated on the Norton Fitzwarren War Memorial, alongside his brother.

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