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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 55

Eight: Major R.T. Frere, Norfolk Regiment 1914-15 Star (Lieut. R.T. Frere Norf. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Capt. R.T. Frere); India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., 1st ´Kaisar-i-Hind´ type, Calcutta Mint issue, one clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Capt. R.T. Frere. 2 Bn. Norf. R.); 1939-1945 Star; Defence and War Medals, the Second War Medals privately engraved ´R.T. Frere´; Delhi Durbar 1911 (2 Lieut. R.T. Frere 2 Norfolk Regt. Delhi 1911), good very fine or better, and rare (8) Estimate £ 350-400 M.I.D. London Gazette 5.4.1916 Lieutenant R.T. Frere, Norfolk Regiment ´For services in connection with the Operations in Mesopotamia from 6th November 1914 up to 14th April 1915´ Major Robert Temple Frere, born November 1889; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Norfolk Regiment, 6.11.1909; Promoted Lieutenant, 10.7.1912; served in India and stationed at Belgaum at the outbreak of the Great War; left for the Persian Gulf, 6.11.1914; served in the Mesopotamian Campaign with the 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, 18th Indian Brigade, 6th (Poona) Division; took part in the action at Kurna, December 1914; wounded in the attack on the Turkish positions at Shaiba, 14.4.1915: ´The main body of the enemy had been located in well-sited trenches near Barjisiyeh. When the Battalion got to within 350 yards, they suffered heavy casualties and found themselves held up by the intense rifle and machine-gun fire...They were ordered to hold firm where they were. At 3:00 p.m. orders were received that the trenches must be taken "at all costs." The Battalion charged forward cheering. The charge was more than the Turks could stand; they fled from their trenches before the Norfolk men could reach them.´ (Regimental history refers). Served in the operations at Kut-al-Amara (Mention in Despatches); Temporary Captain, 1.9-5.11.1915; Captain, 6.11.1915; Served as Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General and Temporary Major, 23.6-21.11.1919; present during the latter stages of the Campaign in Waziristan 1919-21; Major, 1.12.1928; attached, Pioneer Corps, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, 24.8.1939; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel, 25.1.1941.

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