Three: Private P. Daniels, Royal Irish Regiment, who was one of 300 men from the Regiment taken Prisoner of War at Le Pilly following the disastrous Battle of La Bassee, 20 October 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (4352 Pte. P. Daniels. R. Ir: Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (4352 Pte. P. Daniels. R. ir. Regt.) nearly very fine (3) £180-£220

Patrick Daniels attested for the Royal Irish Regiment and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 October 1914, and was taken prisoner of war on 20 October 1914 after the battalion’s ‘last stand’ at Le Pilly (Battle of La Bassee): ‘Another Allied attack was planned for 19 October. The only success during this attack would lead to tragedy. The 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish captured Le Pilly, a village on Aubers Ridge, but the rest of the advance failed. The Royal Irish were dangerously isolated, but before the order to retreat could reach them they were surrounded by the Germans. Of nearly 900 men only 300 survived to surrender to the Germans.’

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