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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 139

A rare Great War trio awarded to Private J. Garnett, North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales's) Regiment, who was killed in action at the heroic defence of Baku in August 1918

1914-15 Star (8507 Pte. J. Garnett, W. York. R.); British War and Victory Medals (8507 Pte. J. Garnett. W. York. R.), nearly extremely fine

John Garnett, a native of Kendall, enlisted into the West Yorkshire Regiment at Leeds. He served in the Balkans theatre from 4 December 1915, before transferring to the 7th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment in Mesopotamia. On 29 July 1918, a 14,000-strong Ottoman army laid siege to the Russian port of Baku on the Caspian Sea. Its Bolshevik garrison fled in panic. The British were desperate to prevent vital war matériel falling into Turkish hands, and so a scratch force under General Lionel Dunsterville was sent to defend the port. Though vastly outnumbered, the British managed to repel four enemy attacks before finally giving way. Garnett was killed in action on 26 August, and is commemorated on the Tehran Memorial; sold with copied research.

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£950