Auction Catalogue

2 April 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1157

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£110

Pair: Private H. Tiffany, Northumberland Fusiliers

British War and Victory Medals
(30175 Pte., North’d Fus.) nearly extremely fine (2) £60-80

Harold Tiffany was killed in action on 23 November 1916, while serving in ‘Y’ Company, 8th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Aged 19 years, he was interred in the Grandcourt Road cemetery; the unit had recently attacked the Zollern and Stuff Redoubts on the Somme on 26 September 1916, and sustained total casualties of around 450 men.