Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private G. Gabites, Manchester Regiment, who died in a railway accident in France while returning home for leave from the 21st Battalion in November 1916

1914-15 Star (18583 Pte., Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (18583 Pte., Manch. R.), good very fine or better (3) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Cheshire and Manchester Regiments, Rifle Brigade and Royal Green Jackets formed by the late David Boniface.

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George Gabites, who was born at Moss Side, Manchester, died in a railway accident on 24 November 1916, while returning home for leave after 13 months in France in the 21st Battalion, Manchester Regiment (copied wartime newspaper feature refers). He was 22 years of age and is buried in Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery on the Somme.