Auction Catalogue

6 July 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 381

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£110

Pair: Second Lieutenant C. H. Giles, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, formerly 10th (Scottish) Battalion, Liverpool Regiment

1914 Star (3280 Pte., 10/L’pool. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2. Lieut.) nearly extremely fine (2) £60-80

Charles Herbert Giles attested for the Liverpool Scottish on 1 September 1914, and was one of the original contingent who travelled to France aboard the S.S. Maidan in November 1914. He was either wounded or evacuated sick and as a result transferred to the 2/10th Battalion, followed by the Machine Gun Corps, before recieving a commission in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 15 June 1918.