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Auction: 5019 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 468

Pair: Private B. Ridgwell, Essex Regiment British War and Victory Medals (23805 Pte. B. Ridgwell, Essex R.), extremely fine, together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (Bertie Ridgwell) and Illuminated Memorial Scroll (Pte. Bertie Ridgwell, Essex Regt.), mounted and framed (3) Estimate £ 140-16023805 Private Bertie Ridgwell, born at Earls Colne, Essex, 8.6.1893. Served on the Western Front during the Great War, 2nd Battalion, the Essex Regiment, attached 12th Brigade, 4th Division; killed in action in the Battle of the Somme 9.7.1916; commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

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