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Dealer: Atlas Antiques
Location: Dorset, United Kingdom
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WW1 Victory Full Sized Medal To Pte S.C Allen Royal Warwickshire Reg

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Code: 15490

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For sale is a WW1 British Victory Full Sized Medal To Pte S.C Allen Of the royal Warwickshire regiment.    This ww1 victory medal is engraved on the rim; “30008 Pte. S.C. Allen R. War. R”    Sidney C Allen served with the 1/7th battalion in the royal Warwickshire regiment. During his service he was awarded a ww1 victory medal and a ww1 war medal. Unfortunately online the victory medal is present with a replacement ribbons    Some ww1 information/ history on the 1/7 Th battalion royal Warwickshire regiment, to help understand some of the places and battles Sidney Allan would have been put through ;   The 1/4th, 1/5th, 1/6th and 1/7 th battalions landed in France as part of the 147th (2nd West Riding) Brigade in the 49th (West Riding) Division in April 1915 for service on the Western Front and served together until the Armistice in November 1918. They saw action on the Somme, at Ypres, during the German spring offensive and the final Allied Hundred Days Offensive.     On the 11th of November 1914, the Germans launched a desparate attack to on Ypres and in the fighting the 2nd Battalion almost eliminated the Fusilier battalion of the 2nd (Prussian) Guard Grenadier Regiment (4th Guard Brigade) whose casualties numbered 15 officers and 500 men. The 2nd Duke of Wellingtons lost 400 officers and men. On the 18th of April 1915, in a successful assault on the high ground at Hill 60, the battalion suffered 421 casualties, 15 of them officers. On 5th May the Germans attacked using chlorine gas and recaptured the lost ground, inflicting a further 350 casualties on the Battalion.     In January 1916 the battalion was transferred to the 4th Division in which it served for the rest of the war. Seeing action in 1916 in the Battles of the Somme, in 1917 in the Battles of Arras and the Third Battle of Ypres. In 1918 they took part in The First Battle of Arras 1918, The Battles of the Lys, The Advance in Flanders, the Second Battles of Arras 1918, The Battle of the Canal du Nord on the Hindenburg Line and the Final Advance in Picardy.   Accompanying this medal is 2 scans of his service records. Upon payment please let me know if you would prefer digital scans or printed copies. There is still plenty of research to be done on this medal!    These will be sent via royal mail 1st class signed for and dispatched within two working days.    Seller reference number J10   Box Number 1