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Memorial Plaque (Richard White) very fine £40-£50
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Memorial Plaque (Richard White) very fine £40-£50
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Richard White was born in Birmingham and enlisted there into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in March 1906, aged 18. He served in India from January 1908 to March 1914, and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 11 August 1914. He embarked with the 2nd Battalion but was transferred to the 1st Battalion on 31 December 1914, serving with whom he received gunshot wounds to his chest and right hand on 5 May 1917. He was killed on 19 June 1917, when his tent was struck by lightening during a thunder storm at 7 a.m. that morning, killing three men and injuring five others. He was buried, together with the other two, in Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Note: The recipient’s medals were sold in these rooms in December 2024.
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Richard White was born in Birmingham and enlisted there into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in March 1906, aged 18. He served in India from January 1908 to March 1914, and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 11 August 1914. He embarked with the 2nd Battalion but was transferred to the 1st Battalion on 31 December 1914, serving with whom he received gunshot wounds to his chest and right hand on 5 May 1917. He was killed on 19 June 1917, when his tent was struck by lightening during a thunder storm at 7 a.m. that morning, killing three men and injuring five others. He was buried, together with the other two, in Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Note: The recipient’s medals were sold in these rooms in December 2024.
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Memorial Plaque (Richard White) very fine £40-£50
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Richard White was born in Birmingham and enlisted there into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in March 1906, aged 18. He served in India from January 1908 to March 1914, and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 11 August 1914. He embarked with the 2nd Battalion but was transferred to the 1st Battalion on 31 December 1914, serving with whom he received gunshot wounds to his chest and right hand on 5 May 1917. He was killed on 19 June 1917, when his tent was struck by lightening during a thunder storm at 7 a.m. that morning, killing three men and injuring five others. He was buried, together with the other two, in Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Note: The recipient’s medals were sold in these rooms in December 2024.
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Richard White was born in Birmingham and enlisted there into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in March 1906, aged 18. He served in India from January 1908 to March 1914, and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 11 August 1914. He embarked with the 2nd Battalion but was transferred to the 1st Battalion on 31 December 1914, serving with whom he received gunshot wounds to his chest and right hand on 5 May 1917. He was killed on 19 June 1917, when his tent was struck by lightening during a thunder storm at 7 a.m. that morning, killing three men and injuring five others. He was buried, together with the other two, in Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Note: The recipient’s medals were sold in these rooms in December 2024.
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