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Auction: 8010 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 184

A Great War Group of Four to Private A.H. Nash, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Who Died of Wounds on the Western Front, 10.9.1917 India General Service 1908-35, E.VII.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (6614 Pte. A. Nash 1st R. War. R.); 1914 Star (6614 Pte. A. Nash R. War. R.); British War and Victory Medals (242365 Pte. A.H. Nash. R. War. R.), minor edge bruising, very fine, with the following related original documentation: - Great War Parchment Memorial Scroll - Original parchment Certificate of Discharge, dated 1.7.1911 - Letter of Notification of Death addressed to ´Mrs. Nash, 7 Lifford Cottages, Lifford Lanes, King´s Norton´, dated 15.9.1917 - Letter to same address from the 2/6th Royal Warwickshire´s Chaplain, giving detail of how the recipient died, typed copy of original, enclosure slip for a Memorial Plaque, and a page from recipient´s Memorial Service (lot) Estimate £ 300-340 242365 Private Albert Henry Nash, born Birmingham; enlisted 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1899; discharged, after service on the North West Frontier, 1.7.1911; served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front from 11.11.1914, later transferring to the 2/6th Service Battalion, and it was with the latter when he received his mortal wound as a letter from the Battalion Chaplain to Nash´´s wife illustrates, ´´I do not know whether I shall be the first to break to you some very sad news. Your husband, for whom I had myself the greatest respect, has been called to lay down his life for his Country. On Monday last he was in Camp a good long way behind the Trenches, when a heavy shell came and he was hit in the head. I saw him in the Ambulance shortly afterwards; he was perfectly conscious and quiet, though he knew he was very badly hit. I learned from the doctor that there was practically no hope of recovery as his skull was broken in two places. I just said goodbye to him with a "God bless you" as he was taken away down to hospital. Your husband was a very well known and well liked member of the battalion. As you know he had been for some little time regimental policeman.´´; Nash is buried in Mendingham Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen.

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