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25 May 2022

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№ 144

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25 May 2022

Hammer Price:
£260

Three: Lieutenant J. S. Fry, 8th South African Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 13 July 1916

1914-15 Star (Lt. J. S. Fry. 8th Infantry.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Lt. J. S. Fry.) generally very fine (3) £100-£140

John Samuel Fry, a civil servant from Johannesburg, attested for the South African Infantry in September 1915, and served during the Great War in Egypt. Commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant on 25 March 1916, he embarked from Alexandria on 12 April 1916 for Marseilles, disembarking eight days later. Posted to “B” Company, 4th South African Infantry, he was killed in action in the Somme sector on 13 July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.