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Auction: 22101 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 363

Four: Private A. W. Gray, 1/10th (Scottish) Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment, killed in action on 9 August 1916, during the attack on Guillemont for which Captain Noel Chavasse was awarded his first Victoria Cross

1914-15 Star (4635 Pte A. W. Gray. L'Pool R.); British War and Victory Medals (4635 Pte. A. W. Gray. L'Pool R.); Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Archibald William Grey), contact marks, very fine (4)

Archibald William Gray was born at Charing Heath, Kent in 1895, the son of Archibald and Eliza Gray of 163 Godington Road, Ashford, Kent. Prior to enlistment he worked as a Bookstall Clerk, attesting on 25 May 1915. Entering the War in France on 6 September 1915 he was posted to 166th Company, Machine Gun Corps on 9 March 1916. Admitted to 90th North Lancashire Field Ambulance as a result of an abscess on 22 July 1916 he returned to his unit the next day. Gray was killed in action on 9 August 1916 and is buried at Serre Road Cemetery; sold together with copied service records, Commonwealth War Graves details and extracts relating to the attack on Guillemont on 8 August 1916.

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£240

Starting price
£140