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Auction: 8010 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 268

A Great War Group of Three to Private W.A. Kerl, London Regiment, Killed in Action, 4.6.1915 1914 Star (1910 Pte. W.A. Kerl. 1/16 Lond: R.); British War and Victory Medals (1910 Pte. W.A. Kerl. 16-Lond.R.), good very fine, with photographic image of recipient as he appears in De Ruvigny´s Roll of Honour (3) Estimate £ 140-180 1910 Private William Austen Kerl, born Beckenham, Kent, 1893; educated at City Freemen´´s School, Brixton; served during the Great War with the 16th (Queen´´s Westminster Rifles) Battalion London Regiment on the Western Front from 1.11.1914; he was killed in action 4.6.1915; during the early months of 1915 the battalion had operated in the Houplines sector, in June they moved to the support lines north of the Ypres-Roulers railway, and on the 4th of that month Kerl, ´´was killed in action..by a shell bursting in the reserve trenches in front of Ypres while waiting to occupy the first line trenches´´ (The Roll of Honour, De Ruvigny, refers); Kerl was originally buried at the cross roads, Potyze, Ypres-Zonnerbeck Road, however the grave was lost and he is now commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.

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