Auction Catalogue

5 & 6 December 2018

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 919

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6 December 2018

Hammer Price:
£150

Three: Second Lieutenant H. Mann, Machine Gun Corps, late Liverpool Regiment
1914-15 Star (16321 Sjt. H. Mann. L’pool R.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. H. Mann.) very fine

Three:
Private J. C. Wilding, Liverpool Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front, 12 September 1918
1914-15 Star (265818 Pte. C. J. [sic] Wilding. L’pool R.); British War and Victory Medals (2935. Pte. J. C. Wilding. L’pool R.) contact marks, good fine (6) £70-£90

Henry Mann was born in Cheshire in 1889 and attested for the Liverpool Regiment, serving as a Sergeant during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 November 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Machine Gun Corps on 25 May 1917, and was promoted Lieutenant on 26 November 1918.

John Christian Wilding attested for the Liverpool Regiment at Bootle, Lancashire, and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 12 September 1918, and is buried in Moeuvres Communal Cemetery Extension, France.