Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private W. A. G. Jackson, Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action with the 1st Battalion on the “First Day of the Somme”

1914-15 Star (S-10457 Pte., Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (S-10457 Pte., Rif. Brig.), together with related Memorial Plaque (William Arthur Gill Jackson), good very fine and better (4) £250-300

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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William Arthur Gill Jackson, who was born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, was killed in action on the Somme on 1 July 1916 while serving in the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Launching its attack from positions south of Serre, the Battalion was met by ‘a hail of rifle and machine-gun fire’, losing 14 officers and 154 other ranks killed.