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№ 605

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6 December 2017

Hammer Price:
£140

1914 Star (9382 Pte. W. H. Parker. S. Wales Bord.); 1914-15 Star (14944 Pte. J. Redding. S. Wales Bord:); British War Medal (2), (2.Lieut. W. A. Thomas; 13182 Pte. J. Jones. S. Wales Bord.); Victory Medal (2684 Pte. D. T. Lloyd. Glam. Yeo.) extremely fine (5) £160-200

Private William Henry Parker, 1st Battalion, South Wasles Borderers, entered the war in France on 13 August 1914, and died of wounds on 20 September 1914. He is buried in Villers-en-Prayeres Communal Cemetery. He was born at Tonypandy, Pontypridd, and enlisted at Ebbw Vale. Sold with copied m.i.c. and extract from The Roll of Honour.

Joseph Redding was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, and attested for the South Wales Borderers at Newport, Monmouthshire. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 September 1915, and was killed in action in the trenches in the Somme by ‘a stray night bullet’ on 19 October 1915. On 30 October the Battalion sailed for the Balkans; casualties for their time on the Western Front amounted to 1 officer and 8 other ranks killed, and 8 other ranks wounded. Redding is buried in Assevillers New British Cemetery, France. With copied m.i.c.

2nd Lieutenant William Archibald Thomas, 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, was badly wounded at Goudberg Spur, Passchendaele, on 10 November 1917. With research confirming only officer with these initials awarded medals as 2. Lieut.

Private John Jones, 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, entered the war in France on 9 November 1914, died of wounds on 29 December 1914. With copied m.i.c.

David Thomas Lloyd was born in Ystrad, Glamorganshire, and attested for the Glamorganshire Yeomanry at Pentre, Glamorganshire. He served during the Great War with both the Glamorganshire Yeomanry and the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 2 October 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. With copied m.i.c.