Auction Catalogue

17 September 2020

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№ 217

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17 September 2020

Hammer Price:
£170

Three: Corporal F. Bell, Royal Irish Fusiliers, who was posted missing during the Great German Spring Offensive, March 1918

1914 Star (8586 Pte. F. Bell. R. Ir: Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (856 Cpl. F. Bell. R. Ir. Fus.) very fine (3)
£140-£180

Francis Bell attested for the Royal Irish Fusiliers and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 August 1914 (also entitled to a clasp to his 1914 Star). Transferring to the 9th (North Irish Horse) Battalion, he was posted missing during the period 21-27 March 1918, during the first week of the Great German Spring Offensive, on which dates the Battalion was attacked at Fleuesle, fell back on Guiscard, and then having re-joined the line at Erches was attacked again and fell back to Arvillers- over the course of the week the battalion suffered 2 Officers and 15 other ranks killed, 6 Officers and 75 other ranks wounded, and 15 Officers and 406 other ranks missing.

Sold with copied research.