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Three: Lance Corporal W. Rogers, Suffolk Regiment 1914-15 Star (3.9953 L.Cpl. W. Rogers....
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Three: Lance Corporal W. Rogers, Suffolk Regiment 1914-15 Star (3.9953 L.Cpl. W. Rogers. Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-9953 Pte. W. Rogers. Suff. R.) nearly very fine and better Three: Private C. Jones, 12th (Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry) Battalion, Manchester Regiment, later Labour Corps 1914-15 Star (23480 Pte. C. Jones. Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (23480 Pte. C. Jones. Manch. R.) generally very fine (6) £80-£100 --- Walter Rogers, a farm labourer, was born in the Parish of Packenham near Bury St Edmunds, around 1872. He attested for the Suffolk Regiment on 7 September 1914, and served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 August 1915. Transferred to the 7th, 9th and 11th Battalions, he was appointed Lance Corporal on 5 February 1918, and was discharged on 23 November 1918. Charles Jones, a labourer, was born in Manchester in 1881 and attested for the Manchester Regiment on 31 January 1915. Posted to France as part of ‘Kitchener’s Army’ on 15 July 1915, his Army Service Record notes that he received a slight shrapnel wound to the right eye in September 1915 and a gunshot wound to the left leg in November 1917. Sent to the South African Hospital at Abbeville and the Lord Derby War Hospital at Warrington, Jones witnessed the final year of hostilities in the service of the 115th Labour Company; his papers confirm 4 days confined to barracks at Cleethorpes on 12 March 1918 in consequence of overstaying leave. Discharged to Army Reserve 12 March 1919, he was unsuccessful in claiming a disability pension.
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Three: Lance Corporal W. Rogers, Suffolk Regiment 1914-15 Star (3.9953 L.Cpl. W. Rogers. Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-9953 Pte. W. Rogers. Suff. R.) nearly very fine and better Three: Private C. Jones, 12th (Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry) Battalion, Manchester Regiment, later Labour Corps 1914-15 Star (23480 Pte. C. Jones. Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (23480 Pte. C. Jones. Manch. R.) generally very fine (6) £80-£100 --- Walter Rogers, a farm labourer, was born in the Parish of Packenham near Bury St Edmunds, around 1872. He attested for the Suffolk Regiment on 7 September 1914, and served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 August 1915. Transferred to the 7th, 9th and 11th Battalions, he was appointed Lance Corporal on 5 February 1918, and was discharged on 23 November 1918. Charles Jones, a labourer, was born in Manchester in 1881 and attested for the Manchester Regiment on 31 January 1915. Posted to France as part of ‘Kitchener’s Army’ on 15 July 1915, his Army Service Record notes that he received a slight shrapnel wound to the right eye in September 1915 and a gunshot wound to the left leg in November 1917. Sent to the South African Hospital at Abbeville and the Lord Derby War Hospital at Warrington, Jones witnessed the final year of hostilities in the service of the 115th Labour Company; his papers confirm 4 days confined to barracks at Cleethorpes on 12 March 1918 in consequence of overstaying leave. Discharged to Army Reserve 12 March 1919, he was unsuccessful in claiming a disability pension.
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