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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 381

Three: Captain M. L. Formby, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, who was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle on 26 October 1914

1914 Star, clasp (Capt: M. L. Formby. Wilts: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. M. L. Formby.), with their named card boxes of issue, nearly extremely fine (3)

Myles Lonsdale Formby was born at Glyneath, Glamorgan on 15 December 1874, son of Myles Lonsdale Formby, late 6th Dragoon Guards, of Haydown, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

Entering the 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant from the Militia in December 1896, he joined his unit at Karachi. Made Lieutenant on 23 April 1898, during the Boer War Formby served with a draft (Queen's Medal & clasp). Advanced Captain on 26 February 1902, he was made Adjutant of the Volunteers, 1 October 1903-31 March 1908 and thence Adjutant of the Territorial Force upon their inception on 1 April 1908. Upon the outbreak of the Great War, he served in France from August 1914. He was involved in the furious action on 26 October 1914 at Neuve Chapelle, Formby being killed in action. The unit suffered a further 20 killed, 40 wounded and 10 missing. His wife, Winifred, whom he had married in 1903 with issue of two children, had passed in June 1914 so it was left to Formby's mother to claim his Medals, applying for his 1914 Star and clasp in November 1917; sold together with copied research. Formby is commemorated upon the Le Touret Memorial and also upon the family memorial.



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£550

Starting price
£420