Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victory Medal 1914-19 (21141 Pte. A. Allott. Manch. R.) good very fine £70-90

Amos Allott, a native of Clayton, Manchester, enlisted into the 27th (Reserve) Battalion, Manchester Regiment and landed in France with the 22nd (Service) Battalion (7th City) on Christmas Eve 1915. He was assigned to ‘B’ Company, Platoon No. ‘IV’. He was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, when his battalion attacked Bucket Trench before moving onto Danzig Alley, where they were driven back by heavy German resistance. Re-enforced by elements of the South Staffordshire Regiment, the 22nd subsequently took Danzig Trench, but at significant cost: of the 796 men of the battalion that went into action on that day, 472 became casualties. Allott was amongst those killed; has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Sold with a Manchester Regiment cap badge.