Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private F. Jefferson, 1st (Garrison) Battalion, Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), who was killed in action on the Western Front on 13 October 1915

1914 Star (7757 Pte. F. Jefferson. 1/ W. York: R.); British War and Victory Medals (7757 Pte. F. Jefferson. W. York. R.) good very fine (3) £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Recipients of the 1914 Star.

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Frank Jefferson was born in Haxby, York in 1883 and enlisted at Selby having worked for five years as a Carman in the Great Western Railway Goods Department at Birmingham. He served with D Company, 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 September 1914 and was admitted to the 4th Stationary Hospital with a gun-shot wound to his left wrist on 23 September 1914 immediately following his battalion’s participation in the Battle of the Aisne. He was killed in action on 13 October 1915 and is buried in Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery, Belgium.