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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 748

A Great War 1915 ´Battle of Aubers Ridge´ Casualty Group of Four to Private A.E. Causon, South Wales Borderers, Late Gloucestershire Regiment Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (4314 Pte. A. Causon, Gloucester: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (15305 Pte. A.E. Causon, S.Wales Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (15305 Pte. A.E. Causon. S.Wales. Bord.), extremely fine, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque ´Albert Edward Canson´ (sic) (4) Estimate £ 180-220 15305 Private Albert Edward Causon, born Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire; served with the Gloucestershire Regiment for 22 months during the Boer War on garrison duty at St. Helena, guarding Boer prisoners of war; he spent a further 6 years with the Glosters before being discharged; at the outbreak of the Great War he was living in South Wales and so, ´joined the South Wales Borderers on December 18th [1914] and volunteered at once for the front. He was sent out to France in January, and his wife went to reside with her parents. In one of his letters home he, as a reminder that he was doing his duty, enclosed a piece of shrapnel shell which was burst against the sandbags of the parapet of his trench. On May 7th he sent his thanks to two friends for gifts of cigarettes, and, acknowledging receipt of a parcel from home, he said he was quite well. He had requested the photograph of his wife to be sent to him, and was wearing it at the time of his death´ (Stroud News & Journal refers); Causon was part of "D" Company 1st battalion South Wales Borderers and was killed in action when they were part of a main attack by the First and Meerut Divisions on a 2000 yards frontage from Chocolat Menier Corner (N.E. of Festubert) to the Port Arthur cross-roads (South of Neuve Chappelle, 9.5.1915, and he is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial and the Minchinhampton War Memorial.

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