Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private A. Hinds, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

1914-15 Star (11405 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (11405 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.) nearly extremely fine (3) £50-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection formed by Peter Wardrop.

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Alfred Hinds was born and lived at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. He died of wounds in France and Flanders on 27 July 1916, received earlier that day during the Battle of Delville Wood. It was during this action that Sergeant Alfred Gill, also of the 1st Battalion, K.R.R.C. gained the award of the Victoria Cross.