A FIRST WORLD WAR GALLANTRY CASUALTY GROUP TO THE DORSETSHIR...

Hammer

£750

A FIRST WORLD WAR GALLANTRY CASUALTY GROUP TO THE DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT. A Great War Group of four and Memorial Plaque comprising Military Medal named to 10084 LCpl F.H. Higgins 5/Dorset R. 1914-15 Star named to 10084 Pte F.H. Higgins Dorset R. War Medal and Victory Medal to Higgins as Cpl, plaque to Frederick Henry Higgins. Corpoal Higgins from Puddletown outside Dorchester served with the 5th (Service) Battalion of the Dorset Regiment, arriving in France on the 11th July 1915 his Military Medal was gazetted on the 5th January 1917 (Gazette 29893 p34), The award is recorded in the History of the Dorset Regiments which suggests that the 5th were in trenches at Mericourt for 'three particularly vile but not costly tours in trenches in the same sector'. Higgins was killed in action on the 1st October 1918 when the Battalion left Marquion at 11.30 to join the 32nd Brigade in the push forward towards the Aubencheul-Abancourt Railway, resistance from unbroken wire and Machine Gun fire led to one officer and 16 O.R. being killed and 209 other ranks wounded, 34 missing. Higgins was among those killed and is buried at Chapel Corner Military Cemetery between Arras and Cambrai. Framed and glazed, maximum dimensions 40 x 38cm. With an extensive collection of copied documents, photographs of the headstone and Diary extracts. *CR Mounted in a glazed frame with name and details below the medals. A lot fee of £8 inc. VAT will be charged on top of the hammer price and BP on all lots.