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Pair: Private H. Holden, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who died of wounds received on the Western...
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British War and Victory Medals (70249 Pte. H. Holden. R. W. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Horace Holden), in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, edge bruising to the first, otherwise nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140
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Horace Holden, from Port Sunlight, Birkenhead, Cheshire, a former employee of Lever Brothers, was born in 1898. He attested into the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry and saw service with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front with the 15th Battalion. Transferring to the 13th Battalion, he was wounded and returned Home where he died of wounds, aged 19, at the 1st Scottish General Hospital, Aberdeen, on 26 June 1918. He is buried in Port Sunlight (Christ Church) Communal Churchyard, Birkenhead, Cheshire, and appears on the Port Sunlight War Memorial.
Sold with copied research and an original postcard photograph of the recipient in uniform.
British War and Victory Medals (70249 Pte. H. Holden. R. W. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Horace Holden), in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, edge bruising to the first, otherwise nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140
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Horace Holden, from Port Sunlight, Birkenhead, Cheshire, a former employee of Lever Brothers, was born in 1898. He attested into the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry and saw service with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front with the 15th Battalion. Transferring to the 13th Battalion, he was wounded and returned Home where he died of wounds, aged 19, at the 1st Scottish General Hospital, Aberdeen, on 26 June 1918. He is buried in Port Sunlight (Christ Church) Communal Churchyard, Birkenhead, Cheshire, and appears on the Port Sunlight War Memorial.
Sold with copied research and an original postcard photograph of the recipient in uniform.
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