Three: Private B. Crick, Suffolk Regiment, who served at Gallipoli from December 1915
1914-15 Star (3456 Pte. B. Crick, Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3456 Pte. B. Crick. Suff. R.) very fine

Three: Acting Corporal R. Hughes, Cheshire Regiment, who served at Gallipoli from June 1915
1914-15 Star (11177 Pte. R. Hughes. Ches: R.); British War and Victory Medals (11177. A. Cpl. R. Hughes. Ches. R.) minor contact marks, very fine (6) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Gallipoli Campaign.

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Bertie Crick attested for the Suffolk Regiment and served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War at Gallipoli from 2 December 1915. He served on the peninsula for a little over 2 weeks before the Regiment was evacuated to Alexandria on 19 December 1915; the majority of the men served in Egypt and Palestine thereafter. Crick was disembodied on 11 March 1919.

Richard Hughes was born in Chester around 1891 and is recorded in 1911 as working as an upholsterer in his home city. He attested for the Cheshire Regiment following the outbreak of the Great War and is believed to have initially served with the 1/4th Battalion which formed part of 159th Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division. Disembarked at Suvla Bay on 26 June 1915, he survived the Gallipoli campaign and transferred to the 8th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment in 1916. Attached to No. 13 Divisional Dump in 1917 and later, the Infantry Base Depot, he was demobilised on 12 May 1919.