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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 30

A Great War 1916 'French Theatre' M.M. Group of Four to Sergeant F.W.G. Lyne, Middlesex Regiment, Killed in Action on the First Day of the Battle of Arras, 9.4.1917
a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (2368 Sjt: F.W. Lyne. 1/8 Middx: R.- T.F.)
b) 1914-15 Star (8-2368. Pte. F.W. Lyne. Middx. R.)
c) British War and Victory Medals (2368 Sjt. F. Lyne. Midd'x R.), traces of lacquer, nearly extremely fine (4)

M.M. London Gazette 27.10.1916 2368 Sjt. F.W. Lyne, Midd'x R.

2309 Sergeant Francis William George Lyne, M.M., born Walworth, London; served with the 1st/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 18.4.1915; killed in action on the First Day of the Battle of Arras, 9.4.1917, on which date the Battalion, as part of the 167th Brigade, 'had the task of capturing the southern half of Neuville-Vitasse. Two platoons of the 3rd London Regiment with a half section of the 167th Light Trench-Mortar Battery and supported by a tank attacked Neuville Mill as a separate operation, and took it without difficulty. The 1st/8th Middlesex had harder work. It was held up in front of the second of its four objectives, the church and the parallelogram of trenches around it, by a "pocket" of the enemy protected by wire which had been hidden by the houses and had not been cut. After a sharp fight it took the place with 68 prisoners and four machine guns. Having lost the barrage, it was only with difficulty that the battalion struggled up to the Blue Line, which it did not reach till 4:00pm.' (Official History of the Great War refers). Lyne is commemorated on the Neuville-Vitasse Mill Cemetery Memorial, France.

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