Auction Catalogue

14 February 2024

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 381

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14 February 2024

Hammer Price:
£260

Three: Private E. Jones, Gloucestershire Regiment, who died of disease on 11 October 1918
1914-15 Star (19131 Pte. E. Jones. Glouc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (19131 Pte. E. Jones. Glouc. R.) very fine

Three: Private J. E. Starkes, Gloucestershire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 9 October 1917
1914-15 Star (14937 Pte. J. E. Starkes. Glouc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (14937 Pte. J. E. Starkes. Glouc. R.); Memorial Plaque (Joseph Edward Starkes) mounted on a wooden mount,
the plaque polished, otherwise very fine

Pair: Private A. G. Stroud, Gloucestershire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (14980 Pte. A. G. Stroud. Glouc. R.)
very fine (9) £120-£160

Albert Edwin Jones, a miner originally from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, attested into the Gloucestershire Regiment, at Tonypandy, South Wales, for service during the Great War. He served on the Western Front with the 2nd Battalion from 27 May 1915 and later served in Salonika where he contracted malaria and subsequently died on 11 October 1918. He is buried in Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military Cemetery, Greece.

Joseph Edward Starks was born in Loxton, Somerset, in 1897. He attested into the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1914 and served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 1/4th Battalion from 21 November 1915. He was killed in action on 9 October 1917 and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

Alfred G. Stroud, a plumber from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, was born in 1894. He attested attested into the Gloucestershire Regiment in September 1914 for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the 12th Battalion from 21 November 1915. He received a gun shot wound and shrapnel wound to his neck in September 1916, and was transferred into the Labour Corps, where in December 1917, he was discharged as being no longer being physically fit. He later died in 1963.

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