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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 314

Three: Corporal A. Slack, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on 27 October 1914

1914 Star, copy clasp (9092 L. Cpl. A. Slack. Yorks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (9092 Cpl. A. Slack. Yorks. L.I.), good very fine (3)

Albert Slack, a native of Sneighton, Nottingham, was born in 1888 and was an iron moulder when he enlisted in the Army on 28 January 1907. By 1911 he was serving with the 1st Battalion in China and served in France with the 2nd Battalion from 10 August 1914. He was killed in action on 27 October 1914 and is commemorated upon the Le Touret Memorial. In 2009, fifteen bodies found in shallow graves in the hamlet of Beauchamps-Ligny. Eleven of those were found to be killed in the period and unit in which Slack served, from the cap Badges and insignia which was located on the bodies. Four bodies remained unidentified and were buried with the others with Military Honours in the Y Farm Cemetery in Bois-Grenier in 2014, it seems likely Slack might well have been one of those who remained unidentified; sold together with copied research which includes a portrait photograph of the recipient.

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£170

Starting price
£160