Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 March 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1006

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26 March 2014

Hammer Price:
£30

British War Medal 1914-20 (19885 Pte. J. Haller, K.O. Sco. Bord.), good very fine £30-40

Jack Haller, who was born at Sykehouse, near Goole, Yorkshire, enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, as a regular soldier direct from the Territorial Army, and saw action in the Balkans before transferring to the 1st Battalion out in France. Severely wounded on the Somme on 1 July 1916, when his Battalion suffered 552 casualties, he died of his wounds at Etaples on the 18th.