Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 March 2013

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 972

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26 March 2013

Hammer Price:
£230

Four: Corporal S. Merritt, Gloucestershire Regiment, killed in action, 22 December 1914

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4848 Pte., Glouc. Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4848 Pte., Glouc. Regt.); 1914 Star (4848 Pte., 1/Glouc. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (4848 Cpl., Glouc. R.) note: B.W.M. missing, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (4) £200-250

Stephen Merritt was born in Bethnal Green, London. Served in the Gloucestershire Regiment, seeing active service in the Boer War. By 1911 he had left the Army and was employed as a Bookbinder. Returning to service for the Great War, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a Private in the 1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, on 13 August 1914. Entitled to a clasp to the 1914 Star. As a Corporal he was killed in action on 22 December 1914 and was buried in the Brown’s Road Military Cemetery, Festubert.

With copied research.