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№ 428

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25 September 2019

Hammer Price:
£360

Pair: Private E. W. Grace, Royal Fusiliers, late Metropolitan Police, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 7 May 1917

British War and Victory Medals (GS-65229 Pte. E. W. Grace. R. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Eliot Walter Grace) in card envelope and outer envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. A. Grace, 72 Bellevue Rd., Salisbury’, nearly extremely fine (3) £70-£90

Eliot Walter Grace, formerly a Police Constable with ‘B’ Division, Metropolitan Police, attested for the Royal Fusiliers and served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He died of wounds on 7 May 1917, aged 24, and is buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France.