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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 789

A Great War 1915 ´Battle of Loos´ Casualty Group of Three to Private J. Goodall, 10th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, One of Only 59 Men of the Battalion to Survive the First Day of the Loos Battle, 25.9.1915; Later Killed in Action 1914-15 Star (16195 Pte. J. Goodall. Glouc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (16195 Pte. J. Goodall. Glouc.R.), nearly extremely fine, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque ´John Goodall´, medal enclosure slips and condolence slip (lot) Estimate £ 180-220 16195 Private John Goodall, born Southam, near Cheltenham; served during the Great War with the 10th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in the French Theatre of War from, 8.8.1915, ´the battalion took part in the ill-fated attack on the first day of the battle of Loos where it was almost annihilated. Having been withdrawn from the front line for regrouping, to pick up any stragglers who might rejoin and to receive a reinforcement draft from England, they went into the front line again on the 13th October. Ordered to attack the German lines west of Lens road, they quickly followed a preliminary artillery bombardment and gas attack at 2pm but failed to reach their objectives due to concentrated rifle and machinegun fire and fell back to their original lines for the loss of 155 killed, wounded and missing. The months of September and October 1915 had been devastating for the 10th Gloucesters and prevented them from taking any active part in the War until Spring 1916. Private Goodall was amongst the killed on the 13th October, and having no known grave is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.´ (Leaving All That Was Dear, refers). Only 59 men of the battalion survived the first attack at Loos.

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