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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 69

A Scarce Campaign Combination Great War Casualty Group of Four to Captain A.C. Edwards, Royal West Kent Regiment, Killed in Action, Whilst Leading His Men in an Attack at Loos, 25.9.1915 Queen´s Mediterranean 1899-1902 (Capt. A.C. Edwards. R.W. Kent Rgt.), edge bruise; 1914-15 Star (Capt. A.C. Edwards, R.W.Kent.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A.C. Edwards.), otherwise generally good very fine or better (4) Estimate £ 600-800 Captain Arthur Corbett Edwards of "Danehurst", Thorncliffe Road, Folkestone, Kent; served with the 3rd Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment in the Mediterranean; after discharge re-engaged as Temporary Captain Royal West Kent Regiment, 30.9.1914; served during the Great War with the Regiment in the French theatre of War, from 25.9.1915; he was listed as missing presumed killed in action (later confirmed as killed in action), whilst serving with B Company 8th Battalion, 25.9.1915, 2801 Private James Harding gave the following account ´at Loos the Royal West Kents made an attack; Capt. Edwards was shot next to the Informant he fell down and was left behind after calling out to his men to get on´; Captain Edwards is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

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