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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 332

Three: 2nd Lieutenant E. A. Bassano, 13th Battalion attached 11th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), who was killed in action on 1 October 1916

1914-15 Star (PS-7095 Pte. E. A. Bassano. R. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. E. A. Bassano.), good very fine (3)

Edward Arthur Bassano was born in 1893 in Derby and educated at Derby Public School. In December 1908 Bassano applied for, and obtained, a job as a Bank Clerk in Crompton & Evans' Union Bank. This bank was acquired by Parr's Bank in 1914, which latterly became a part of NatWest. He left his job at the bank's Derby Corn Market branch and enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers on 31 May 1915 and served in France with the 21st Battalion from 14 November 1915. Bassano was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Sherwood Foresters on 4 August 1916 and was killed in action on 1 October 1916, whilst attached to the 11th Battalion. On that day, the unit moved from The Tangle to assemble in Destremont Trech at 0915hrs. They attacked Flers Trench and its Support Trench near Le Sars, taking the objective, but in the action Bassano was killed. He is commemorated upon the Thiepval Memorial and also online by the NatWest Group (https://www.natwestgroupremembers.com/our-fallen/our-fallen-ww1/b/edward-bassano.html); sold together with an original copy of The Derbeian, December 1916, which still noted Bassano missing at that point, besides copied research,

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£250

Starting price
£190