A Collection of Medals to the 13th Regiment and Somerset Light Infantry

Three: Lance-Corporal A. Cross, Somerset Light Infantry, who was taken P.O.W. at Le Cateau in 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (9545 L. Cpl., 1/Som. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Pte., Som. L.I.), mounted as worn, generally very fine or better (3) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 13th Regiment and Somerset Light Infantry.

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Albert Cross, who was from the Somersetshire parish of Wivelscombe, was taken P.O.W. in the Le Cateau operations of 26 August 1914, while serving in the 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Quite probably he was a casualty, the Battalion’s wounded - numbering in excess of 150 men - having been left in the church at Ligny from where they could not be evacuated by the evening.

Cross was repatriated at the end of the War.