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19 May 2021

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Lot

№ 142

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19 May 2021

Hammer Price:
£190

Three: Private George Cave, 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, taken prisoner in November 1914

1914 Star (7554 Pte. G. Cave. 1/North’n R.); British War and Victory Medals (7554 Pte. G. Cave. North’n. R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £140-£180

George Cave was born at Rushden, Northants, and enlisted into the Northamptonshire Regiment at Northampton on 29 October 1904, aged 18 years 9 months and employed in the shoe trade. Called up from the Reserve on 5 August 1914, he landed in France with the 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment on 13 August 1914. He was captured on 5 November 1914, and interned at Merseberg, Germany, where he was put to work in a coal mine. He was repatriated on 2 January 1919. Entitled to clasp to 1914 Star. Sold with copied discharge papers and an Old Contemptibles Association lapel badge and lid from card box of issue for pair.