Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private F. Gunnell, Manchester Regiment, who died of wounds in France in April 1917, while serving in the 1/9th Battalion

1914-15 Star (3149 Pte., Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (351356 Pte., Manch. R.), together with related Memorial Plaque (Fred Gunnell), good very fine and better (4) £160-180

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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Fred Gunnell, who was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, died of wounds in France on 25 April 1917, while serving in the 2/9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. He was 25 years of age and is buried in Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery on the Somme; sold with a photograph of his original grave.