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№ 17

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20 April 2022

Hammer Price:
£240

Pair: Private F. C. Gover, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action at Langemarck on 21 October 1914

1914 Star (6985 Pte. F. C. Grover [
sic], 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (6985 Pte. F. C. Gover. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with an erased British War Medal 1914-20, nearly very fine and better (3) £140-£180

Frederick Charles Gover was born in Reading, Berkshire, and and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Caversham on 5 August 1914. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914 and was killed in action at Langemarck on 21 October 1914, aged 28. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Sold with a small photographic image of the recipient.