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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 244

Four: Private N. Pipe, 2/5th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, who died on New Year's Eve 1916, having been taken prisoner of war at Kut

1914-15 Star (1812 Pte. N. Pipe. Som: L. I.); British War and Victory Medals (1812 Pte. N. Pipe. Som. L. I.); together with the recipient's Memorial Plaque (Norman Pipe), V.M. cleaned, very fine and scarce to Battalion (4)

One of 36 casualties of the 2/5th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry during the Great War 1914-19.

Norman Pipe served in Mesopotamia with the 2/5th Somerset Light Infantry from 7 August 1915. Having then been attached to the 2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, he was taken prisoner of war at the fall of Kut and died on 31 December 1916. Pipe is commemorated upon the Basra Memorial and the Middle Lambrook Memorial, with the inscription 'Fell in the Syrian Desert at the Capture of Kut, April 1916.'

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