Pair: Private H. Tiffany, Northumberland Fusiliers

British War and Victory Medals (30175 Pte., North’d Fus.) nearly extremely fine (2) £60-80

Harold Tiffany was killed in action on 23 November 1916, while serving in ‘Y’ Company, 8th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Aged 19 years, he was interred in the Grandcourt Road cemetery; the unit had recently attacked the Zollern and Stuff Redoubts on the Somme on 26 September 1916, and sustained total casualties of around 450 men.