Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914 Star (9867 Pte. J. Cain. 2/R. W. Fus.) worn, good fine £100-£140

John Cain attested for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 August 1914. Transferring to the 1st Battalion, he suffered a wound to the left hand and chest on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, on which date the Battalion was involved in the attack on Mametz, working up the Sunken Road Trench towards Fricourt and both sides of the Rectangle. Battalion casualties that day were 4 killed and 245 wounded.

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