Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 July 2017

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 283

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19 July 2017

Hammer Price:
£130

Three: Private N. T. Hack, East Lancashire Regiment and Military Foot Police
1914 Star (10225 ‘Sgt’ M. [sic] T. Hack. 1/E. Lan: R.); British War and Victory Medals (10295 ‘Sgt’ N. T. Hack. E. Lan. R.) rank unofficially corrected on all medals, polished, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore fine

Three:
Warrant Officer Class II E. W. Hart, Wiltshire Regiment
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (5568334 W.O. Cl. 2. E. W. Hart. Wilts.) mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £70-90

Nathan Thomas Hack was born in 1888 in Redditch, Worcestershire, and worked as a boy of 13 at the pin factory. He joined the 5th Militia Battalion Worcestershire Regiment in 1905, and in 1911 was serving in India with 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment. He served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 1st East Lancashire Regiment from 13 August 1914, and transferred as Acting Lance Corporal, Military Foot Police (Hosp) on 14 August 1915. At the end of the war, he re-transferred to 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment. He died in Worcestershire in 1952.