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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 405

Victory Medal (5315 Pte. L.A. Dalton. R. Ir. Regt.), good very fine, with the recipient´s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Lorenzo Antonio Dalton)

5315 Private Lorenzo Antonio Dalton, born Carlisle, Cumberland; served with the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front on the first day of the Battle of Messines, 7.6.1917, on which date the Battalion, as part of the 49th Brigade, was involved in the successful capture of the Messines Ridge, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

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