Three: Private A. E. Challenger, Gloucestershire Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 28 July 1916

1914-15 Star (2629 Pte A. E. Challenger. Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals  629 Pte. A. E. Challenger. Glouc. R.) very fine and better (3) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Russell Collection of Medals to the Gloucestershire Regiment.

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Dix Noonan Webb, December 2017.

Arthur Estwick Challenger was born at Totterdown, Bristol, on 25 September 1894 and attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment at Cheltenham. He served with the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915, and died of wounds at 9 General Hospital, Rouen on 28 July 1916. He was buried in St Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France.