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№ 623

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5 December 2024

Hammer Price:
£140

Memorial Plaques (3) (Albert Frank George Forsey; Vivian Archibald Sykes; Albert Warne) minor spotting to second and polish residue to last, generally very fine and better (3) £80-£100

Albert Frank George Forsey enlisted at Walthamstow and served on the Western Front as Private with the 15th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. He died of wounds on 6 September 1918 and is buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

Vivian Archibald Sykes served in Egypt as Gunner with 123rd (Heavy) Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Sometime transferred to the 1st Mountain Battery, the UK, Army Register of Soldier’s Effects records him drowned on 20 May 1917.