Original World War One Victory Medal, Pte Premont, 16th London and 17th/13th Gloucester R.
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An original World War One era Victory Medal, with replacement ribbon. Correctly named to;
2112 PTE. L. R. PREMONT. 16-LOND. R.
Louis Premont arrived in France on 1 November 1914 and was entitled to a 1914 Star trio. He also served with the 17th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment under service number 291593, and then the 13th.
He was killed in action on 22 March 1918 serving with the 13th (Service) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment.
He is recorded on CWGC at Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, with the note 'Buried near this spot'. 224 of the burials here are unidentified but there are special memorials to seven casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and ten buried in other cemeteries whose graves could not be found.
Interestingly CWGC has some details on the concentration element of the cemetery, this shows that within this plot of the cemetery are 41 soldiers believed to be 'Gloucester Pioneers' (the 13th Battalion), originally buried under a single cross by the Germans in April 1918, the bodies found at map reference 62c. D. 28d. 5. 3. This would place the bodies in the cemetery of the church in the village of Templeux-la-Fosse, which is one of the cemeteries known to have been exhumed and added to the extension of Peronne Communal cemetery.
The 13th did in fact move to Templeux-la-Fosse on the 21st March 1918. The war diary states they were employed as an infantry battalion and occupied the 'green line' (presumbly the front line) on the 22nd March and on the 23rd fought a rearguard action. This is the beginning of the German Spring Offensive, but the war diary is very scant in details.
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Bromsgrove, United Kingdom