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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 144

Medals to the Greg Family Three: Captain A.T. Greg, Royal Flying Corps, late Cheshire Regiment 1914 Star, with Bar (2 Lieut: A.T. Greg. Ches: R.); Victory Medal (Capt.), Memorial Plaque (Arthur Tylston Greg) Pair: Second Lieutenant R.P. Greg, Cheshire Regiment Victory Medal (2 Lieut. R.P.Greg); Memorial Plaque (Robert Philips Greg), extremely fine, with two War Medals, both renamed (6) Estimate £ 250-300 Captain Arthur Tylston Greg, educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford; joined the Cheshire Regiment August 1914, went to France in October attached to the Sherwood Foresters, and was invalided home in December; returned to France with 1 Battalion Cheshire Regiment, January 1915 and was severely wounded at Ypres 6.5.1915; Captain November 1915; joined the Royal Flying Corps September 1916, and joined 55 Squadron in France 4.4.1917; on the return from bombing an ammunition dump, 23.4.1917, six of 55 Squadron were attacked by 10 enemy machines; Greg, flying DH4 no. A7408, was shot and killed at about 18,000 feet; his Observer AMI R.W.Robson, managed to bring the machine down just inside French lines at Urvilles, near St. Quentin, but died of wounds 18.5.1917. Captain Greg is buried in the French Communal Cemetery at Jussay, Aisne, France. Second Lieutenant Robert Philips Greg, educated at Rugby, joined the Cheshire Regiment in January 1918; left England with the 11 Battalion, 16 April; acted as Liaison Officer between the Battalion and Brigade during the German attack near Kummel on 29 April, and was mortally wounded by a shell dropping direct on his dug-out, while he was in the support line, and died on 3 May ; Second Lieutenant Greg is buried in Lyssenthoeck Cemetery near Popinghe.

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