Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private T. Arnold, Royal Irish Fusiliers, who died in Bulgaria, 30 September 1918

1914-15 Star (15576 Pte., R. Ir. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (15576 Pte., R. Ir. Fus. ); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Arnold) good very fine and better (4) £14-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Irish Fusiliers.

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Thomas Arnold was born in Hackney, lived in Stamord Hill, N. Middlesex, and enlisted at Tottenham. Serving with the 5th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, he entered the Gallipoli theatre of war on 7 August 1915. He died in Bulgaria on 30 September 1918, aged 27 years. Private Arnold was buried in the Plovdiv Central Cemetery. With copied m.i.c., roll extract and other research.