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Auction: 8010 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 257

A Great War Group of Three to Lance-Sergeant T. Rae, Seaforth Highlanders, Killed in Action, 25.4.1915 1914 Star (126 L.Sjt. T. Rae 2/Sea: Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (126 Cpl. T. Rae. Sea. Highrs.), nearly extremely fine, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque, ´Thomas Rae´, in card box of issue Estimate £ 180-220 126 Lance-Sergeant Thomas Rae, born Rosskeen, Ross-shire; served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders on the Western Front from 23.8.1914; he was killed in action 25.4.1915; on the 24th-25th April 1915 the 2nd Battalion were involved during the battle of St. Julien, as part of the 2nd battle of Ypres, the Official History gives the following detail for the action,´´Day had dawned and rain ceased, but the morning mists had not cleared away when the battalions of 10th Brigade passed through the wire of GHQ line in fours and forming into line faced the front - St. Julien - "Kitchener´´s Wood"... Brigadier General Hull placed his four regular Battalions 1/Royal Irish Fusiliers, 2/Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 2/Seaforth Highlanders, 1/Royal Warwickshires in the first line. Due to the delay and the impossible task of getting all battalions into position the attack was made by five battalions (Hull´´s own Brigade) and not fifteen!... they remained lying dead in rows where they had fallen. The losses of 10th Brigade in its magnificient but hopeless attempt had been heavy, totally 73 officers and 2,346 other ranks, mostly irreplaceable, well trained men´´; Rae is buried in Seaforth Cemetery, Cheddar Villa, Langemark Belgium.

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