Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Three: Private W. Carter, 1/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, who died in the service of the famous “Vanished Battalion” in Gallipoli on 12 August 1915

1914-15 Star (1028 Pte. W. Carter, Norf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1028 Pte. W. Carter, Norf. R.), attempted erasure of initial on the first, good very fine or better (3) £350-400

Walter Carter was born at Wretton, Norfolk and enlisted in the Norfolk Regiment at Stoke Ferry. Posted to the 1/5th Battalion, he was among those to be posted missing, presumed killed in action, in Gallipoli on 12 August 1915. Having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.

For full details of the fate of the “Vanished Battalion”, see the footnotes to Lot 765.