WW1 BWM and Victory Medal to Capt H. Hart nearly mint. This ...

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WW1 BWM and Victory Medal to Capt H. Hart nearly mint. This is a unique name and rank on MICs, issued to Captain Hugh Hart 13th (1st Barnsley Pals) Bn York & Lancaster Regt who died of wounds on 1st or 2nd July 1916 while serving as Adjutant during the attack on Serre on the Somme. He is buried in Bertrancourt Military Cemetery.
He was born in Toxteth Park in 1881, son of a local Alderman, educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1904 joined Parr's Bank, enlisted in Middlesex Regt in Sept 1914, commissioned in York & Lancs 5/2/15, landed France after 1/1/1916. With copied research including photo, CWGC lists date of death 1st July, Soldiers Died and MIC state died of wounds 2nd July, War Diary lists him as Adjutant and states killed in action but no date. The Bn suffered 286 casualties in the first 4 days of July. (R)