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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 879

Three: Private H. Horne, 1/1st West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own)

1914-15 Star (1162 Pte. H. Horne, W. Kent Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (1162 Pte. H. Horne, W. Kent Yeo.), the first with traces of abrasive cleaning, otherwise very fine (3)

Herbert Horne was first saw action with the 1/1st West Kent Yeomanry in Gallipoli, in which theatre of operations he landed on 7 October 1915; Sir Ian Hamilton noted in his diary that the regiment 'made a brave showing' at Gully Ravine in the same month.

He was discharged as no longer physically fit for military service in July 1916 and was awarded the Silver War Badge.


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