Lot Archive

Lot

№ 601

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£700

Three: Private T. Hamblin, Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action with the 2nd Battalion on the “First Day of the Somme”

1914-15 Star
(S-9204 Pte., Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (S-9204 Pte., Rif. Brig.), good very fine (3) £200-250

Thomas Hamblin, who was born in Bethnal Green, Middlesex, was killed in action on the Somme on 1 July 1916, while serving in the 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.