A Collection of Medals to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Three: Private A. Y. Thomas, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

1914-15 Star (3196 Pte. A. Y. Thomas. R.W. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (3196 Pte. A. Y. Thomas, R.W.Fus.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge numbered, B.88219, with original safety chain fitting in original numbered box of issue and named and numbered issue slip; and a St. Dunstan’s Billiard Fund Prize Medallion, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘A. Thomas, 1922’, in fitted case, extremely fine (5) £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

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Albert Yorke Thomas was born at Penmaenmawr, Caernarvonshire, North Wales, in 1896 and attested for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 4 January 1915. He served during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 8 August 1915; his pension records indicate that he suffered a crushing injury to his foot while on active service and he was awarded the Silver War Badge prior to being discharged on 2 January 1919.