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8 December 2021

Hammer Price:
£420

Pair: Private H. S. Beale, Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 27 July 1916

British War and Victory Medals (E-2289 Pte. H. S. Beale. R. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Harry Stanley Beale) good very fine (3) £100-£140

Harry Stanley Beale was born in Sturminster Newton, Dorset, and attested for the the Royal Fusiliers at Kensington, London. He served with the 17th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 27 July 1916, on which date the Battalion was in action at Delville Wood, suffering 118 casualties. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

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