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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 857

Three: Private A. Turner, 1/4th Essex Regiment, who was killed in action at the First Battle of Gaza on 26 March 1917

1914-15 Star (2193 Pte. A. Turner, Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (2193 Pte. A. Turner, Essex R.), the last with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine or better (3)

Alfred Turner, a native of Shenfield, Essex, first saw action in the 1/4th Battalion in Gallipoli, where he landed at 'C' Beach in Suvla Bay during the evening of 12 August 1915; by the end of the month the Battalion had suffered losses of 157 killed or wounded, with another 217 sick.

Turner subsequently fought in Egypt and Palestine and was killed in action at the First Battle of Gaza on 26 March 1917.

Aged 21, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Turner of 10 Railway Cottages, Shenfield, Essex, and is buried in Gaza War Cemetery.


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Estimate
£80 to £100

Starting price
£60

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