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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 589

A Great War 1915 ´Battle of Loos´ M.M. Group of Six Private W. Casey, Gloucestershire Regiment, Late Coldstream Guards, A Fifty-Year-Old Veteran of the Boer War, Who Was Originally Recommended For the Distinguished Conduct Medal; Twice Wounded on the Western Front a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (2753 Pte. W. Casey. 1/Glouc:R.) b) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, six clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (8100 Pte. W. Casey. Cldstm: Gd:) c) King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps, (8100 Pte. W. Casey. Coldstream Guards) d) 1914-15 Star (2753 Pte. W. Casey, Glouc: R.) e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (2753 Pte. W. Casey. Glouc. R.), light contact marks to K.S.A. obverse, otherwise good very fine or better, with photographic image of recipient (6) Estimate £ 550-600 M.M. London Gazette 14.9.1916 2753 Pte. W. Casey 1/Glouc. R. Casey was initially recommended for the D.C.M. but downgraded, the Original Recommendation states, ´On 26th Sept. 1915 near Hulloch, [Casey] volunteered to go out with Lt. Hewitt and Cpl. Holder to look for Major Stevenson.´ The party had just been gassed and went out into No Man´s Land to bring in several wounded men of the Welch Regiment. 2753 Private William Casey, M.M., born Cheltenham; enlisted Coldstream Guards, 1890; discharged 21.7.1902; served during the Great War with the Gloucestershire Regiment in the French Theatre of War from, 28.11.1914 (M.I.D. London Gazette 15.6.1916); was wounded in the head 20.4.1915 and at Barleux 8.2.1916, ´ "A" and "B" Companies were in the front during this tour; their trenches faced nearly due south and were 500 yards from Barleux. "C" was in support and "D" in reserve. Hostile shell fire, at first remarkable by its absence, increased gradually, probably owing to the activity of our guns; Headquarters was shelled regularly and unpleasantly, casualties, one man killed and one wounded, were lighter than during any spell in the line since the Battle of Loos. The man killed lost his life through trying to throw a French bomb, of which there were a lot lying about in odd places, that he did not understand. The wounded man, Private Casey, had been a guardsman years earlier. Now he must have been nearly fifty years old, yet he was full of life and dash.´ (Infantry, Pagan, refers)

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