Auction Catalogue

15 February 2023

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Lot

№ 254

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15 February 2023

Hammer Price:
£130

Pair: Private G. W. Vokes, 10th Battalion, London Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 8 August 1918

British War and Victory Medals (424368 Pte. G. W. Vokes. 10-Lond. R.) surname partially officially corrected on both; Memorial Plaque (George William Vokes) nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£100

Peter Wardrop Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2000.

George William Vokes was born in Deptford and attested there for the 10th Battalion, London Regiment, serving with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 August 1917. He was killed in action on 8 August 1918, when the 58th Division attacked the village of Sailly-Laurette, with the Battalion suffering total casualties of 3 officers and 17 other ranks killed, and 4 officers and 74 other ranks wounded. He is buried in the Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France.