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24 & 25 February 2016

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№ 838 x

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25 February 2016

Hammer Price:
£220

British War Medal 1914-20 (10147 Pte. R. M. Roberts, Wilts. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (11774 Sjt. R. W. Miller, Wilts. R.); Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (William Rupert Reid), very fine or better (3) £120-160

Robert Maurice Roberts was killed in action at Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli on 10 August 1915, while serving in the 5th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. On that date, an overwhelming Turkish counter-attack, led by Mustapha Kemal in person, cost the battalion 135 dead and many more wounded - according to one regimental record, ‘more than half the officers and men were never seen again.’ Formerly a staff member of the London and North Western Railway Company at Euston, London, Roberts was aged 30 years and the son of Mrs. M. Roberts of Platts Avenue, Watford, Hertfordshire. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.

Reginald W. Miller, another member of the 5th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, landed at ‘V’ Beach, Gallipoli on 16 July 1915.

William Rupert Reid, another member of the 5th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, was also killed in action at Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli on 10 August 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.