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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 759

A Great War ´Western Front´ Casualty Group of Three to Private A.C. Rutland, Gloucestershire Regiment, Killed in Action Near Loos 1914 Star, with Bar (9928 Pte. A.C. Rutland. 1/Glouc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (9928 Pte. A.C. Rutland. Glouc. R.), extremely fine (3) Estimate £ 140-180 9928 Private Arthur Cecil Rutland, born Leckhampton, Cheltenham, enlisted in the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, January 1914; served with the British Expeditionary Force in France, 1914, and posted as missing, 29.10.1914 when the Battalion was rushed into action to close a gap in the defences of Ypres, caused by a successful German attack on the Black Watch trenches near Gheluvelt. He was later able to rejoin his unit, but was killed in action near Loos, 11.12.1915, whilst the Gloucesters were relieving the South Wales Borderers in the front line, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

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