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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 855

Three: Corporal A. Hannah, 1/5th Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who was killed in action in Palestine in November 1917

1914-15 Star (3502 L. Cpl. A. Hannah, A. & S. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (10050 Cpl. A. Hannah, A. & S.H.), the last two with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (3)

Andrew Hannah likely first saw action in Gallipoli, the 1/5th (Renfrewshire) Battalion landing at Cape Helles on 3 July 1915.

Subsequently embarked for Egypt, the 5th Argylls formed part of 157th Brigade and participated in the capture and defence of Outpost Hill on 19 April during the Second Battle of Gaza. The Brigade was in reserve for the final assault on Gaza in November but was not committed.

Hannah was killed in action in Palestine on 24 November 1917, during the further advance on Jerusalem; he is buried in Jerusalem War Cemetery.


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