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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 413

Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Harry Ralph Cross), good very fine

G/15382 Private Harry Ralph Cross, born New Hackleton, Northamptonshire; served with the 12th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 17.10.1916, on which date the Battalion were at the Schwaben Redoubt in the Auchonvillers North sector, Somme- the War Diary records ´D´ Company on the left coming under attack about 22:00 hours by the enemy coming up Strasbourg Trench and using flamethrowers- ´Attack beaten off with heavy loss to the enemy´. Cross is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

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