Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. C. Pottinger, 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, attached Dorsetshire Regiment, who died of wounds at Kut al Amara on 30 September 1915, the first man of the Battalion to die due to enemy action in the Great War

1914-15 Star (1127 Pte. W. C. Pottinger. Devon: R.); British War and Victory Medals (1127 Pte. W. C. Pottinger. Devon. R.) extremely fine (3) £160-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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William Charles Pottinger was born in Withycombe Raleigh, Exmouth, Devon, in 1888. A farm labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the 4th (Territorial) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Embodied on 5 August 1914, he embarked with the 1/4th Battalion on the TS Nevasa at Southampton and disembarked at Karachi on 10 November 1914. A draft of 25 men from the Battalion, including Private Pottinger, under Lieutenant Snell, were attached to the 2nd Battalion, Dorset Regiment at Kut al Amara, Mesopotamia on 20 May 1915. He died of wounds at Kut al Amara on 30 September 1915, aged 28, and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq. He is recorded as the first man from the 4th Battalion to die due to enemy action in the Great War.

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