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17 February 2021

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Lot

№ 352

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17 February 2021

Hammer Price:
£300

Pair: Able Seaman A. R. Barrell, Anson Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 16 September 1917

British War and Victory Medals (L.Z. 5204 A. R. Barrell. A.B. R.N.V.R.); Memorial Plaque (Albert Richard Barrell) extremely fine (3) £120-£160

Albert Richard Barrell enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and served with the Anson Battalion, Royal Naval Division during the Great War on the Western Front. He died of wounds in the 19th Casualty Clearing Station, Agnez-lès-Duisans, France, on 16 September 1917, having suffered shell wounds to his right thigh and hand, and a sustained a fracture of his right tibia, on 4 September 1917. He is buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France.