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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 458

Four: Private H. J. Croucher, Royal Marines Light Infantry, who died of tuberculosis caught on service in 1917

1914-15 Star (PO. 6496 Pte. H. J. Croucher. R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (PO.6496 Pte H. J. Croucher. R.M.L.I.); Royal Naval L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (PO.6496 H. J. Croucher, Private, R.M.L.I.), toned, good very fine (4)

Henry James Croucher was born at Hull on 13 April 1875 and enlisted at London on 13 October 1892, receiving his L.S. & G.C. medal on 25 June 1911. Originally discharged on 13 April 1914 he re-enlisted on 2 August 1914 and served on Portsmouth Division and Victory during the Great War, he was discharged as invalided with tuberculosis on 18 October 1916. Croucher died the next year on 4 January 1917 and is buried in Portsmouth (Kingston) Cemetery; sold together with a copied Commonwealth War Graves certificate.

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