Auction Catalogue

23 September 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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

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

Lot

№ 287

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£170

Pair: Private J. Russell, Leicestershire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (16621 Pte., Leic. R.), together with related Memorial Plaque (James Russell) good very fine and better (3) £100-120

James Russell was born in and enlisted at Leicester. Serving in the 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, he died of wounds in Mesopotamia on 23 April 1917. His name is commemorated on the Basra Memorial.