Auction Catalogue

17 September 2004

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

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

Lot

№ 1076

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17 September 2004

Hammer Price:
£310

Three: Private F. T. Spittle, 9th London Regiment

1914-15 Star (2857 Pte., 9 Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2857 Pte., 9-Lond. R.); Memorial Plaque (Frank Thomas Spittle) extremely fine (4) £150-200

Frank Thomas Spittle enlisted in London whilst living in Leyton. Serving with the 9th Battalion London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles), he was killed in action on 23 February 1915. The regimental history records that he joined his battalion in France on 20 January 1915. On Tuesday 22 February 1915, at 8a.m., a working party of No.1 Platoon were working in front of the parapet under cover of a mist. The mist suddenly lifted and some Germans opened fire on the party. Private Spittle, one of the party, was hit in front of the parapet and Sergeant Pulleyn who was making his way back stopped to bandage him. Pulleyn was with him for ten minutes before he died. Spittle was buried in the Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery. See also lot 1233 for the D.C.M. to Pulleyn.