Three: Sergeant A. Newey, 6th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, who was seriously wounded at Vimy Ridge on 6 May 1916

1914-15 Star (17091 Cpl. A. Newey. S. Wales Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (17091 Sjt. A. Newey. S. Wales Bord.) good very fine (3) £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers.

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Albert Newey was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire in 1887, and attested for the South Wales Borderers on 14 September 1914. He served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 September 1915, was advanced Sergeant on 10 March 1916, and was wounded in action at Vimy Ridge on 6 May 1916, receiving a gun shot wound and shrapnel to his right leg. He was admitted to 22nd General Hospital on the same day from where he was evacuated to the U.K. on the SS Aberdonian on 12 May 1916. He transferred to the Welch Regiment on 10 February 1917, and was subsequently transferred to the Army Reserve on 7 March 1917. He was finally discharged, no longer physically fit for war service, on 11 October 1917, and is entitled to the Silver War Badge.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card, service papers, and other research.