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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 632

Pair: Private B.J. Wright, Honourable Artillery Company
British War and Victory Medals (9795 Pte. B.J. Wright. H.A.C. -INF.-), good very fine

British War Medal (6) (Capt. G.G.B. Johnson; G-6547 Pte. H.H. Butler E. Ken R.; R-38395 Pte. A.H. Poole. K.R. Rif. C.; 56535 Pte. G. Poole. R.A.M.C.; M2-021268 Pte. J. Poole. A.S.C.; H.M.M. Talbot-Fair. V.A.D.), generally very fine or better (8)

9795 Private Benjamin Joseph Wright, served with the 2nd Battalion Honourable Artillery Company during the Great War on the Western Front; killed in action 3.5.1917 on which day the 2nd Battalion were involved in offensives upon Bullecourt which cost the lives of 85 men from the Battalion; he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

6547 Lance Corporal Harold Henry Butler, served with the 6th Battalion East Kent Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front; killed in action 4.8.1916 and is commemorated upon the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Helen Maud Mary Talbot-Fair, enrolled into the Voluntary Aid Detachment June 1915; completed two years of nursing in hospitals throughout England and France; discharged September 1918.

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