Auction Catalogue

14 April 2021

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 347

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14 April 2021

Hammer Price:
£320

Three: Able Seaman A. H. T. Vizard, Drake Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action in Gallipoli on 15 June 1915

1914-15 Star (LZ-32 A. H. T. Vizard, A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (L.Z. 32 A. H. T. Vizard. A.B. R.N.V.R.) ‘z’ in surname unofficially corrected on BWM & VM, good very fine (3) £80-£120

Arthur Henry Thomas Vizard volunteered for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in September 1914 and was posted to the Drake Battalion, Royal Naval Division. He served with the during the Great War in Gallipoli from April 1915, and was killed in action at Cape Helles on 15 June 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Sold with a photographic image of the recipient.

For the recipient’s brother’s medals, see Lot 367.