Three: Second Lieutenant C. V. Neill, Durham Light Infantry and Yorkshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Italy, Altipiani Medal 1918, silver, good very fine and better (3) £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Durham Light Infantry and associated units.

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Charles Victor Neill was born on 22 May 1897, the son of Rev. Henry Neill M.A., Presbyterian Minister, Seaham Harbour. Educated at Bede Collegiate School, Sunderland and Durham University. He was commissioned as a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the 20th Battalion Durham Light Infantry on 4 September 1915 but he relinquished the commission on 6 February 1916. Neill then attested as 18365 Private on 23 February 1916, posted to the Army Reserve on 24 February, then mobilised and posted to the 5th Battalion Coldstream Guards on 10 May. He joined No.4 O.C. Oxford on 4 November 1916, being discharged to take up a commission on 28 March 1917. Re-commissioned as a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, he was promoted Temporary Lieutenant on 1 September 1918. Demobilised on 8 April 1919, he relinquished his commission on 1 September 1921. He served overseas in France/Flanders, April-November 1917 and in Italy, November 1917-August 1918. He was accidently injured at Asiago, 19 June 1918. Sold with some copied research.