Lot Archive

Lot

№ 332

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20 October 1993

Hammer Price:
£150

A family group to the Street brothers who both died in Mesopotamia whilst serving in the Dorset Regiment

1914-15 STAR TRIO (8892 Pte. T.H. Street, Dorset R.) together with bronze memorial plaque (Thomas Henry Street); 1914-15 STAR AND BRITISH WAR MEDAL (8908 Pte. J.A. Street, Dorset R.) together with bronze memorial plaque (James Alfred Street) extremely fine

Private T.H. Street, 2/Dorset Regiment, died in Mesopotamia on 14 October 1916. He was captured at the fall of Kut and was one of more than 250 Dorsets to die in captivity. Private J.A. Street, 2/Dorset Regiment, was killed in action on 14 April 1915, during the battle of Shu'aiba, 12-15 April.