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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 241

Three: Lance-Corporal A. Dane, Somerset Light Infantry, who was killed in action at Le Cateau on 26 August 1914, just five days after having landed in France

1914 Star (7983 L. Cpl. A. Dane. 1/Som: L. I.); British War and Victory Medals (7983 Pte. A. Dane. Som. L. I.), nearly extremely fine (3)

Albert Dane, a native of East Chinnock, was born in 1890 and landed in France with the 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry on 21 August 1914. The first days of the Great War would be terribly costly for the Battalion, suffering a total of 378 casualties from an original complement of 30 officers and 977 other ranks. Dane himself was originally posted missing, presumed dead and during the East Chinnock Parish Council Meeting of 29 March 1915 still unaccounted for (East Chinnock and World War 1, Jeremy Churchill via eastchinnock.net/East-Chinnock--and--WW1-Part-3.php. refers). His body was never recovered and he is commemorated upon the La Ferte-Sous-Jouaree Memorial, France; sold together with copied research including portrait photograph originally printed in The Western Gazette on 2 October 1914.

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Sold for
£420