Pair: Sergeant A. T. Lowes, Irish Guards

British War and Victory Medals (6993 Sjt., Ir. Gds.) edge nicks, very fine (2) £40-50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to the Irish Guards.

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Alfred Thomas Lowes, who was from East Ham, Essex, enlisted in the Irish Guards in March 1915, aged 23 years. Going out to France with the 2nd Battalion in August 1915, he gained advancement to Lance-Corporal in the following month and to Lance-Sergeant in September 1916, but was wounded on the 15th of the latter month and evacuated home. Rejoining his Battalion out in France soon after the end of hostilities, Lowes was finally discharged back home in April 1919.