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Auction: 22101 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 329

Three: Private J. T. Breach, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, who was killed in action on 26 August 1914

1914 Star, clasp, (6951 Pte J. C. Breach. 2/Suff:R.); British War and Victory Medals (6951 Pte. J. T. Breach. Suff. R.), slightly polished, very fine (3)

John Thomas Breach was born in 1884, the son of Harry and Maria Breach. Prior to the war he lived at St. Laurence, Bungay, Suffolk, attesting at Bury-St.-Edmunds. Entering the war in France on 15 August 1914 with 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, they moved towards British positions. Hearing the guns firing during the Battle of Mons on 23 August and the Battalion took positions to cover the withdrawal and were engaged losing three men from their outposts. Withdrawing over the following days they were back in the line on 26 August near Le Cateau, coming under shrapnel fire at 07:30, the war diary notes that they suffered heavily. It was here that Breach was killed, likely as a result of enemy artillery fire, he is commemorated on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial; sold together with copied M.I.C., Commonwealth War Graves details and extracts from the Battalion War Diary for August 1914.

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Sold for
£550

Starting price
£190