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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 819

A Great War Group of Three to Second Lieutenant F.A. Ballinger, Liverpool Regiment, Killed in Action in the Ypres Operations After a Night Attack On Enemy Positions at Bois de Biez, 22.5.1915, Where He Was Last Seen Badly Wounded and Unconscious Near the German Wire 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut: F.A. Ballinger. L´Pool. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. F.A. Ballinger.), nearly extremely fine, with photographic image of recipient (3) Estimate £ 300-350 Second Lieutenant Francis Allan Ballinger, born Gloucester, 1893; educated at Crypt Grammar School, Gloucester and was a Townsend Scholar at Pembroke College, Oxford; was in the O.T.C. and joined the Public Schools Battalion with the outbreak of the Great War; commissioned Second Lieutenant 4th Battalion Liverpool Regiment, August 1914; and served during the Great War attached to the 1st Battalion in the French Theatre of War from, March 1915; he served as a Machine Gun Officer at Neauve Chapelle and in the 2nd Battle of Ypres; after a night attack, 21/22.5.1915, on the German position at Bois de Biez, north of La Bassee, Ballinger was reported ´wounded and missing believed killed´...... last seen badly wounded in the chest and unconscious within a few yards of the enemy´s wire.´ (Bond of Sacrifice, Vol II, refers); he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France. Provence: Ex-Hal Giblin Collection.

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