Lot Archive

Lot

№ 833

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£180

Three: Private G. Harrison, Manchester Regiment

1914-15 Star (9656 Pte., Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2656 Pte., Manch. R.); Memorial Plaque (George Harrison), attempted erasure of naming on B.W.M., good very fine and better (4) £150-200

George Harrison was born in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire and enlisted at Wigan. Serving with the 11th Battalion Manchester Regiment he was killed in action in gallipoli on 12 September 1915. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.