Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private T. Carroll, Connaught Rangers, who was killed in action by a sniper on the Western Front on 2 April 1916

1914-15 Star (2873 Pte. T. Carroll. Conn: Rang:); British War and Victory Medals (2873 Pte. T. Carroll Conn. Rang.) traces of verdigris to Star, otherwise good very fine (3) £100-£140

Thomas Carroll attested for the Connaught Rangers and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 December 1915. He was killed in action on 2 April 1916, and is buried in Noeux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery, France.

Sold with an original (but severely folded and crudely repaired with sellotape) letter to the recipient’s sister from Chaplain to the Forces W. O’Neill, dated 4 April 1916:
‘I sincerely regret to have to tell you that Private T. Carroll, 6th Connaught Rangers, has been shot by a sniper on Sunday morning as he was manning the trenches and died almost immediately. He had a glorious and painless death. He had been at Confession and Communion a few days before and was buried here by me surrounded by his comrades.’