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2 parts

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A Collection of Medals to the 20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion, London Regiment

Lot

№ 952

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5 December 2008

Hammer Price:
£160

Five: Serjeant F. H. R. Paddick, 20th Battalion London Regiment

1914-15 Star (2953 Pte., 20-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2953 Sjt., 20-Lond. R.); Defence and War Medals

Four: Private H. H. Hall, 20th Battalion London Regiment

1914-15 Star (2646 Pte., 20-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2646 Pte., 20-Lond. R.); Defence, good very fine (9) £90-110

Private Frederick H. R. Paddick, 20th Battalion London Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 19 August 1915. With copied m.i.c.

Henry Herbert Watson Hall was born in 1896. A Law Clerk, living at Romford, Essex, he attested for the 20th Battalion London Regiment on 4 September 1914. With them he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 9 March 1915. He suffered a gunshot wound to the left arm on 25 September 1915 and was discharged as permanently unfit for further service on 21 April 1916 and was awarded the Silver War Badge. Sold with copied service papers, m.i.c. and roll extract.