Auction Catalogue

1 December 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 40

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1 December 2010

Hammer Price:
£300

Three: Sergeant Thomas Carr, 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots, who was killed in action at the Battle of Loos on 25 September 1915

1914 Star, with clasp (9857 Pte., 2/R. Scots); British War and Victory Medals (9857 Sjt., R. Scots) good very fine (3)
£160-180

Thomas Carr was born in West Stanley, Durham, lived at Glencraig, Fife and enlisted at Haddington. He served in France and Flanders with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots from 11 August 1914 and was killed in action there on 25 September 1915, the first day of the Battle of Loos. He is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, Belgium.