Auction Catalogue

16 July 2020

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Lot

№ 265

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16 July 2020

Hammer Price:
£170

Three: Private J. Wood, Manchester Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 23 July 1916

1914-15 Star (11716 Pte. J. Wood. Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (11715 Pte. J. Wood. Manch. R.); Memorial Scroll, inscribed ‘Pte. John Wood, Manchester Regiment’, very fine (3) £100-£140

John Wood, who was born in Hulme, attested for the Manchester Regiment and served with the 19th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 November 1915. He was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme on 23 July 1916, on which date the Battalion was involved in an attack on Guillemont and sustained heavy casualties. Wood has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Sold with original King’s letter, transmittal slips and copied service record.