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Auction: 8010 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 269

A Great War Group of Three to Private P.C. Kronenberger, London Regiment, Killed in Action, 16.4.1915 1914 Star (1400 Pte. P.C. Kronenberger. 1/16 Lond.R.); British War and Victory Medals (1400 Pte. P.C. Kronenberger. 16-Lond.R.), nearly extremely fine, with Shooting Medal, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham, date illegible), engraved ´Queens Westminster Rifles Recruits Competition 1912 won by Rifle P.C. Kronenberger B. Coy.´, in Vaughtons Ltd. leather box, lid embossed in gold lettering, ´Queens Westminster Rifles, 1912´ Estimate £ 140-180 1400 Private Percy Charles Kronenberger, born Croydon; served during the Great War with the 16th (Queen´´s Westminster Rifles) on the Western Front from 1.11.1914; he was killed in action 16.4.1915; from January to June 1915 the battalion occupied the trenches in the Houpelines sector and the Battalion War Diary entry for the date of Kronenberger´´s death gives, ´´a very quiet day intermittent sniping... 1 killed, 1 wounded´´; Kronenberger is buried in the Houpelines Communal Cemetery Extension.

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