Lot Archive

Lot

№ 628

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29 June 2006

Hammer Price:
£190

A British War Medal 1914-20 and related Memorial Plaque to Private W. Small, Monmouthshire Regiment, who died of wounds on the “First Day of the Somme”

British War Medal 1914-20 (3333 Pte., Monmouth R.), together with related Memorial Plaque (William Small), the first with edge bruise, otherwise good very fine (2) £60-80

William Small, who was born at Newport, where he enlisted in the 1st Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment, died of wounds on the Somme on 1 July 1916, one of 22 such casualties sustained by his unit.