Lot Archive

Lot

№ 765

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1 December 2010

Hammer Price:
£340

Three: Corporal H. P. Clinch, Manchester Regiment, killed in action, Gallipoli, 29 May 1915

1914-15 Star (682 Cpl. H. P. Clinch, Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (682 Cpl. H. P. Clinch, Manch. R.); Memorial Plaque (Henry Percy Clinch) in a metal framed case (no glass) bearing a ‘Manchester’ crest, extremely fine (4) £200-250

Henry Percy Clinch was born and lived in Mertola, Portugal and enlisted at Manchester. Serving as a Corporal in the 1/6th Battalion Manchester Regiment, he entered Gallipoli on 5 May 1915. There he was killed in action on 29 May, aged 26 years. His name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. Corporal Clinch was the son of Marriott William and Mary Harriet Leahy Clinch of 19 Wellington Square, Oxford. With copied m.i.c., war diary extracts and other research.