Orders, Decorations and Medals

1914-15 Stars (4), (15925 Pte. T. Foster, L.N. Lan. R.); (3551 Pte. M. Winn, L.N. Lan. R.); (11803 Pte. C. Fay, L.N. Lan. R.); (21120 Pte. A. Taylor, L.N. Lan. R.) generally very fine or better (4) £40-50

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

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Michael Winn died in France and Flanders on 4 October 1916, whilst serving on attachment with the Divisional Salvage Company, in the Montauban area. The cause of his death was the subject of a court of enquiry, which discovered the following details: After finishing their work for the day on 4 October 1916, Private Winn returned to his dugout where he met a Corporal of the Black Watch who was drinking rum from a flask. Winn shared some of the rum with the Corporal, drinking an estimated quarter of the contents in one go, before retiring to his bed. The following morning he could not be roused, so he was carried to a medical section, where he was pronounced dead, the result of alcoholic poisoning.
Charles Fay was killed in action at Gallipoli on 10 August 1915, in the fighting at Chunak Bair.
Alexander Taylor died of wounds in Mesopotamia on 21 April 1916. He is buried in Amara Cemetery, Iraq.