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Auction: 23111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 654

Three: Private C. Hunt, 101st Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was killed in action on 2 November 1916

1914-15 Star (66604. Pte. C. Hunt. R.A.M.C.); Victory Medal 1914-1919 (66604 Pte. C. Hunt. R.AM.C.); Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Charles Hunt), verdigris to plaque otherwise good very fine (3)

Charles Hunt was born in 1882 and worked as a horse keeper while living at New Road, Ascot, Berkshire. Enlisting at Bulford on 29 September 1915 he was posted to 'X' Company, Royal Army Medical Corps the same day. He saw home service for much of the winter before entering the war in France on 18 November 1915 with the 101st Field Ambulance.

This unit was attached to the 33rd Division at the time and remained with them as they went into action at the Battle of the Somme. Their part in the battle began with attacks on High Wood between 14-22 July followed by heavy fighting in August. As a result of this combat the Division saw less offensive actions later in the offensive, arriving in the Lesboeufs sector after the capture of the village on 25 September 1916. While they were still here Hunt and another member of the 101st Field Ambulance were both killed by a shell on 2 November 1916- though the war diary states 3 November. The unit war diary states they were: 'killed by a shell at Guillemont'.

Hunt was buried at Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont; sold together with a copied war diary extract and commonwealth War Graves certificate.

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