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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 847

Three: Private V. R. Clear, Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action during the Battle of the Somme

1914-15 Star (3433 Pte. V. R. Clear. Suff. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (3433 Pte. V. R. Clear. Suff: Yeo:), together with the Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Vernon Raymond Clear), extremely fine (4)

Vernon Raymond Clear, a native of Cambridge, enlisted in the Suffolk Yeomanry on 16 February 1914 and served in the Balkans theatre from 7 October 1915. Catching dysentery, he embarked H.M.H.S. Nevasa at Mudros and was admitted to hospital at Alexandria, before being invalided to England on 30 November. Transferring to the 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, he arrived in France on 27 August 1916 and took part in the closing phases of the Battle of the Somme. The son of William and Jane Clear of 17 Hardwick Street, Newnham Croft, Cambridge, he was killed in action on 30 September 1916, aged 21. He is buried at Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval; sold with copied service papers, MIC, and the original condolence photograph and slip sent to Clear's mother by the Imperial War Graves Commission.

For the awards of the recipient's brother, see Lot 899.

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Sold for
£380

Starting price
£130