Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant J. Lennox, Lancashire Fusiliers, late Northumberland Fusiliers, who was severely wounded at Arras, 1 October 1916, resulting in the amputation of both legs

1914-15 Star (12331 Pte J. Lennox. North’d Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. J. Lennox) very fine (3) £100-140

Joseph Lennox was born on 10 June 1889, in Whickham, Gateshead, Co. Durham, and attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers on 4 September 1914. He served with ‘B’ Company, 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 July 1915. On 13 February 1916, he was sent home and posted to 9th (Scottish) Officer Cadet Battalion, from which he was commissioned in the 21st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers on 6 July 1916. He joined 20th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers in the field and was severely wounded at Arras on 1 October 1916. He arrived home on 1 March 1917 on H.M. Hospital Ship Grantully Castle and was admitted to The Herbert Samuelson Hospital, London, with gunshot wounds to the right arm and buttock, partial blindness in the left eye, shell concussion and shell wounds to both legs, requiring amputation below the knees. He was subsequently provided with artificial legs and received a Silver War Badge on 6 August 1918.

The 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers on 1 October 1916 refers:
“The morning was quiet but in the afternoon and evening there were lively Trench Mortar, light and heavy, engagements. We lost our Sergt. (Sergt. Beaumont) attached to stokes gun battery and 2/Lieut. Lennox, severely wounded.”

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