The Jack Russell Collection of Medals to the Gloucestershire Regiment

Three: Lance-Corporal W. Chandler, Gloucestershire Regiment, later Machine Gun Corps and Military Foot Police

1914-15 Star (2331 Pte. W. Chandler, Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2331 Pte. W. Chandler. Glouc. R.) very fine (3) £60-£80

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

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William Chandler attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment on 4 August 1914 and served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915, as part of his company’s machine gun unit. He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps on 22 July 1916, still attached to the Gloucestershire Regiment, and then transferred once more to the Military Foot Police on 6 July 1918, serving for the final few months of the War in Italy. He was demobilised on 15 March 1919.

Sold with a Gloucestershire Regiment cap badge; copied record of service; and other research.