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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 430

Four: 2nd Lieutenant F. W. Lynch, 4th Battalion attached 1st Battalion, Connaught Rangers, who was killed in action on 26 April 1915

1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. F. W. Lynch. Conn. Rang.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. F. W. Lynch.); Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Francis William Lynch), the Trio housed in a period fitted custom glass-fronted leather case by Spink & Son, good very fine (4)

Francis William Lynch was born on 6 October 1895 at St. Mary’s Lodge, Simmonscourt Road Ballsbridge, Dublin, the third of five sons of Henry Charles Lynch, J. P., Barrister-at-Law. Educated at Belvedere College, Dublin and The Oratory School, Birmingham, young Lynch went up to Trinity College, Dublin in 1913. Upon the outbreak of the Great War he was commissioned in the 4th (Training) Battalion, Connaught Rangers and joined the 1st Battalion in France in March 1915. Like so many young Subalterns, he was quickly into the firing line and went up with his Company into the cauldron of the Second Battle of Ypres in May 1915. Ordered to attack Pilckem Ridge on 26 May, Lynch was killed at the head of their advance onto La Brique by machine-gun fire. He was buried in the La Brique Military Cemetery No. 2. A plaque raised at the house in which he was born, that latterly became a Monastery, was subsequently transferred to the Connaught Rangers Museum (Inventory No. 1025).

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Sold for
£1,300

Starting price
£280