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Auction: 22101 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 336

Three: Private J. Connor, 25th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, killed in action on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme

British War and Victory Medals (25-841 Pte. J. Connor. North'd Fus.); Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (John Connor), the Plaque neatly drilled for mounting at 12 o'clock, very fine (3)

John Connor was born at Hebburn-on-Tyne, Northumberland. Having enlisted at Newcastle with 25th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion he joined them in France only to be killed during the fighting on the First Day of the Somme, 1 July 1916. A Battalion roll notes that he was listed as a member of 'B' Company's Machine Gun Section; sold together with an original photograph, newspaper cutting and memorial sheet as well as copied documents including a battalion nominal roll, Commonwealth War Graves details and M.I.C.

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Sold for
£750

Starting price
£240