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Auction: 22133 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 923

Three: Lance-Corporal T. D. Edmondson, King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment, who was mortally wounded on 26 October 1917, the Second Battle of Passchendaele

British War and Victory Medals (241671 Pte. T. D. Edmondson. R. Lanc. R.); Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Thomas Danson Edmondson), good very fine (3)

Thomas Danson Edmondson was born on 1 October 1896 at Lancaster and served in France with the 2/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment from February 1917. He was wounded in action on 17 February 1917 but remained at duty and was thence present for their famous part in the Second Battle of Passchendaele. On that day the unit were thrown into the crucible and suffered dreadful loses of 30 killed, 134 wounded, besides 33 missing. It was recalled:

'It [the Battalion] had assisted the Division to achieve the seemingly impossible, for in the face of well-sited concrete posts it had gained an appreciable area of mud.'

Edmondson was himself wounded in the left arm and abdomen and was evacuated to England for further treatment. Sadly, he died due to septic peritonitis at Aberdeen General Hospital on 8 December 1917 and was buried in the Lancaster Cemetery. Edmondson is also commemorated upon the Sedbergh School Memorial; sold together with copied research.

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Sold for
£190

Starting price
£60