Lot Archive

Lot

№ 573

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29 June 2006

Hammer Price:
£130

Three: Private L. Roberts, Monmouthshire Regiment

1914 Star, with clasp
(2119 Pte., 1/2 Mon. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2119 Pte., Monmouth R.), the second with officially re-impressed naming, about very fine or better (3) £80-100

Leonard Roberts first entered the French theatre of operations as a Private in the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment in early November 1914. His MIC entry further reveals that he was discharged on 13 March 1916, under the ‘Military Service Act of 1916’.