Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victory Medal 1914-19 (193 Pte. F. C. Dienys, R. Grernsey (sic) L.I.), extremely fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Awards to Channel Islanders.

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Francis Charles Dienys was killed in action on the first day of the attack on Nine Wood on 20 November 1917, while serving in the 1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry, being one of three men who were originally posted as missing (Diex Aix, The Gurnseymen Who Marched Away, 1914-18, by Major Edwin Parks, refers). He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial at Louverval; sold with copied research.