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

Three: Captain T. Pollitt, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, formerly Royal Fusiliers

1914-15 Star (PS-4181 Pte., R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) good very fine (3) £80-100

Sold with copy of m.i.c. and nine pages from his National Archives correspondence file. The following is extracted from a letter written to the War Office by the recipient from the Russian Hospital, South Audley Street, London, dated 16 July 1917: ‘On the 7th of June, whilst in command of a Company of the above Battalion [9th Loyal North Lancs.] in the Messines attack, I received a wound from shrapnel in my left knee. I was operated on at the 20th General Hospital in France on the 11th of June, and the shrapnel which had penetrated the bone was removed...’