Lot Archive

Download Images

Lot

№ 1192

.

10 May 2018

Hammer Price:
£95

Three: Private J. Hammond, Lancashire Fusiliers, killed in action on the Western Front, 20 April 1918

1914-15 Star (14673 Pte. J. Hammond. Lan. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (14673. Pte. J. Hammond. Lan. Fus.) nearly very fine (3) £70-90

Joe Hammond was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, and attested for the Lancashire Fusiliers at Bury, Lancashire. He served with “A” Company, 11th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 20 April 1918. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.