A fine Collection of Medals to the Sherwood Foresters

Pair: Second Lieutenant Sydney Chatterton Carter, 11th Battalion Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment, who died of wounds, Somme, 3 July 1916

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Memorial Plaque (Sydney Chatterton Carter) nearly extremely fine (3) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine Collection of Medals to the Sherwood Foresters.

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2nd Lieutenant Sydney Chatterton Carter, 11th Battalion Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment, was detailed for “D” Company for the Somme attack of 1 July 1916. He was wounded in the attack and died of his wounds on the 3rd June. He was buried in the Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension. He was the son of Mr C. Carter of Bank House, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.

On entering the trenches on 26 June 1916, the 11th Battalion numbered 27 officers and 710 men. At the end of the ‘first day of the Somme’, the battalion numbered 6 officers and 202 men. With copied casualty details.