A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties

Pair: Captain T. L. Astbury, South Staffordshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 21 March 1918

British War and Victory Medals (Capt. T. L. Astbury.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Leslie Astbury) in card envelope; Memorial Scroll, ‘Capt. Thomas Leslie Astbury, South Staffordshire Regt.’, in scroll tube holder, extremely fine (4) £240-£280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties.

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Thomas Leslie Astbury was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire, in 1887, the son of the Rev. Canon George Astbury, of the Old Church Vicarage, Smethwick, and attested for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment at Birmingham on 8 September 1914. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the South Staffordshire Regiment on 8 September 1915, he served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 26 February 1917, and was killed in action on 21 March 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

Sold with copied research including various newspaper cuttings and a photographic image of the recipient.