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Auction: 8010 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 264

A Great War Group of Three to Corporal E.G. Lawson, Liverpool Regiment, Killed in Action, 16.6.1915 1914 Star (1282 L.Cpl. E.G. Lawson. 10/L´Pool R.); British War and Victory Medals (1282 Cpl. E.G. Lawson. L´Pool R.), nearly extremely fine, with photographic image of recipient (3) Estimate £ 140-180 1282 Corporal Edward Gemmell Lawson, born Birkenhead, Cheshire; joined 10th (Scottish) Battalion Liverpool Regiment, 19.10.1906; prior to the Great War Lawson was a Committee Clerk at Liverpool Town Hall; with the outbreak of war he volunteered for service overseas and went in the 10th Battalion´´s first draft on the S.S. Maidan, serving on the Western Front from 1.11.1914; he was missing, later confirmed killed in action, 16.6.1915, after ´´the charge of the Liverpool Scottish at Hooge on the 16th June´´ (copy of newspaper cutting included in the lot refers); during May and early June 1915 the 10th Battalion occupied the trenches just north of the Hooge Crater system, on the 16th of June they were detailed to take part in the assault on the Hooge Ridge; the attack commenced early in the morning after heavy shelling, with the Battalion taking the 1st German line with relative ease; they pushed on with a Battalion charge to take the 2nd line of trenches, this they accomplished after heavy hand-to-hand fighting and taking severe casualties, before forced to retire around midnight without being able to consolidate their extraordinary efforts, the Battalion War Diary gives, ´´The Major General [Haldane] commanding cannot adequately express his admiration for the gallant manner in which the attack was carried out yesterday. The dash and determination of all ranks was beyond praise and that some actually reached the objective in the first rush and remained there under most trying circumstances is a proof of their superiority over the German infantry. That the captured ground could not be held is disappointing more especially as the losses incurred´´; the battalion went in to action with 23 officers and 519 other ranks, suffering 4 officers killed, 6 missing and 11 wounded; 75 other ranks killed, 103 missing and 201 wounded; Lawson is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.

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