Medals from the Collection formed by Peter Wardrop

Three: Private C. Fischer, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

1914-15 Star (A-506 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (A-506 Pte., K. R. Rif. C.); together with memorial plaque (Charles Fischer); and a K.R.R.C. cap badge, the whole mounted in a modern glazed display frame, nearly extremely fine (5) £50-70

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

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Charles Fischer was born and enlisted in Wandsworth, Surrey. He was killed in action in France and Flanders on 25 September 1915, the first day of the Battle of Loos. The 2nd Battalion, with whom Fischer was serving, suffered heavy casualties on this day, when within ten minutes of the opening of the British assault, with gas shells, the wind changed direction, and blew the gas back over the attacking troops.