A Collection of Medals for the Gallipoli Campaign

Three: Corporal F. Billing, East Lancashire Regiment, who was killed in action at Gallipoli on 9 August 1915

1914-15 Star (13516 Cpl. F. Billing. E. Lan: R.); British War and Victory Medals (13516 Pte. F. Billing. E. Lan. R.) very fine and better (3) £140-£180

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

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Frederick Billing was born at Pavenham, Bedfordshire, in 1882, and attested at Manchester for the 6th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. According to the recipient’s MIC he initially disembarked in the Gallipoli theatre of operations on 1 August 1915, but was likely present with his Battalion during the landings at Anzac Cove between 3-5 August 1915. Engaged in the opening phase of the Battle of Sari Bair, commencing 6 August 1915, Billing was killed in action on 9 August 1915 attempting to wrestle the strategically important ridge from Ottoman control. He has no known grave and is commemorated upon the Helles Memorial, Turkey.