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11 September 2024

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Four: Colour Sergeant H. Bright, Essex Regiment, who landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, and was wounded at Gully Ravine on 28 June 1915

1914-15 Star (7825 Cpl. H. Bright. Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (7825 Sjt. H. Bright. Essex R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5999816 C. Sjt. H. Bright. Essex R.) minor edge bruise to last, good very fine (4) £100-£140

Harry Bright attested for the Essex Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War at Gallipoli, landing at Cape Helles on the first day of the campaign on 25 April 1915. Wounded at Gully Ravine on 28 June 1915, he was subsequently posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment, before returning to the Essex Regiment, and is individually identified in a unit photograph of 1924 showing the Officers and Men of the regiment who had landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, and who were still serving with the regiment.