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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 271

Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lt. Col. J. C. Russell.), part of surname officially corrected, nearly extremely fine

[D.S.O.] London Gazette 1 January 1917.

James Cosmo Russell was born on 18 October 1878 and was commissioned into the 4th Hussars on 20 May 1899. Transferred to Hodson's Horse on 15 May 1902, he was killed in action at Frezenberg Ridge on 31 July 1917 whilst serving attached to - and in Command of - the 6th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders.

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