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23 June 2021

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№ 466

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23 June 2021

Hammer Price:
£120

The 1914 Star awarded to Private T. Murley, Somerset Light Infantry, who was wounded and taken Prisoner of War at Ligny on 28 August 1914

1914 Star (6689 Pte. T. Murley. 1/Som: L.I.) good very fine £120-£160

Thomas Murley attested for the Somerset Light Infantry and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 August 1914. He was wounded in the neck and was taken Prisoner of War at Ligny on 28 August 1914, and spent the rest of the War in captivity, being repatriated via Holland in 1918.

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