Auction Catalogue

13 March 2024

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 600

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13 March 2024

Hammer Price:
£1,200

Memorial Plaque (Martin Chicheley Albright) very fine £140-£180

Martin Chicheley Albright was the son of George Stacey Albright, and was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, in August 1886. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and resided at Bromesberrow Place, Ledbury, Herefordshire. He was commissioned in the Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars (Worcestershire Yeomanry), and served with the 1/1st Battalion during the Great War in the Egyptian theatre of War from 13 May 1915.

Albright advanced to Major, but died of wounds in Palestine on 8 November 1917. He is buried in the Gaza War Cemetery and commemorated on the Trinity College Chapel Roll of Honour for the Great War.

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