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Auction: 25112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 230

The Victory Medal awarded to Lance Corporal T. A. Nevett, Shropshire Light Infantry, who sustained serious wounds from a shell and shrapnel near Hooge in August 1915 and was invalided home, where he died of his wounds on 10 September 1915

Victory Medal 1914-19 (13041 Pte T. A. Nevett. Shrops. L.I.), good very fine

The Victory Medal awarded to Private W. Morris, Shropshire Light Infantry, who was Killed in Action in France on 18 September 1916

Victory Medal 1914-19 (SR-8042 Pte. W. Morris. Shrops. L.I.), good very fine (2)

Thomas Alfred Nevett was born in Shifnal, Salop on 24 June 1895 to William Barber Nevett and his wife Emily, of Cotsbrook Hall. He began an agricultural career after his education at Shrewsbury School, which was interrupted by the onset of the Great War. Nevett volunteered for the service at Shrewsbury and was posted to the machine gun section of the 5th Battalion. He and his unit were disembarked in France on 22 May 1915, and Nevett would have received the sad news of his elder brother William Percy's death the following month. His brother, a Sergeant in the Australian Light Infantry, was killed in action on the beach during the Dardanelles landing on 25 April 1915.

Whilst near Hooge that August Nevett suffered a dangerous wound as a result of a shell, which destroyed his gun, and he sustained further wounds from shrapnel while making his way to the dressing station. These wounds resulted in serious spinal injury and paralysis causing him to be invalided home, where he died of his wounds at Edmonton Military Hospital in London the next month on 10 September, aged just 20 years old. Nevett was interred at St. Chad's Churchyard in Stockton, Shropshire and is further entitled to a 1914-15 Star and a British War Medal; sold together with copied research including De Ruvingy's Roll of Honour entries for Thomas and his brother.

Walter Morris was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and enlisted with the Shropshire Light Infantry in Newport, Monmouthshire. He was killed in action whilst serving at the Western Front with the 1st Battalion on 1 September 1916 and left behind a widow, Mary. Morris is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial and is further entitled to a British War Medal; sold together with copied research.

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