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Auction: 8010 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 231

A Great War Group of Three to Private J. West, Duke of Cornwall´s Light Infantry, Killed in Action, 4.10.1917 1914 Star, with Bar, loose as issued (10298 Pte. J. West. 1/D. of Corn.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (10298 Pte. J.A. West. D.C.L.I.), extremely fine, with named lid of original campaign medal box of issue Estimate £ 180-220 10298 Private Joseph Arthur West, born Newington, London; served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion Duke of Cornwall´´s Light Infantry on the Western Front from 21.8.1914; he was killed in action 4.10.1917; on the latter date the 1st Battalion were in action during the Third battle of Ypres, suffering 106 other ranks killed; West is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

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