Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant G. W. B. Gough, Leinster Regiment, late Imperial Yeomanry, who was killed in action at Gallipoli on 10 August 1915

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (37717 Pte. G. Gough. 27th. Bn: Imp: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. G. W. B. Gough. Leins. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. W. B. Gough.) good very fine (4) £300-£400

George William Blanthorne Gough was born in Shrewsbury on 20 December 1884 and served with the 27th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the latter stages of the Boer War. Commissioned temporary Lieutenant in the Leinster Regiment on 12 September 1914, he served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War at Gallipoli, and was killed in action at Gallipoli on 10 August 1915. The Battalion War Diary reveals that he was killed in the trenches at Rhododendron Spur, Anzac Cove by shrapnel shell while strengthening the trench subsequent to an earlier Turkish attack. He is buried at Embarkation Pier Cemetery, Turkey.

Sold with various copied research including the recipient’s Birth Certificate, Medal Index Card and medal roll extracts; application form for appointment to a temporary commission, and Battalion War Diary extracts.