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Auction 75  26 September 2012
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Lot 2044

Estimate: 180 GBP
Price realized: 240 GBP
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MILITARY MEDALS. Campaign Groups. A fine Great War 1914 Trio awarded to Private Joseph L Hartley, 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, severely wounded at Mouse Trap Farm 13 May 1915, 1914 Star & Clasp '5th Aug – 22nd Nov 1914' (9767 Pte J. L. Hartley, 1/E.Lan:R.), British War and Victory Medals (Pte.); officially impressed, group court mounted on board for display. Toned, a little polished, otherwise good very fine. (3)
Private Joseph Hartley suffered a severe gunshot to the right leg 13 Ma, 1915, at Mouse Trap Farm.
Sold with a quantity of research, copy MIC, contemporary reports, sketched maps, as well as a contemporary newspaper article from the 'Blackburn Times' 22/5/15, showing a portrait of Private Hartley, and an excerpt from a letter written to his sister whilst recovering from his wounds in Nottingham:
"You see that have got me at last, but I have been very lucky to get away from Ypres with this wound. There are lots worse wounded than I am...The Germans, knowing that they cannot possibly, by fair or foul, gain any ground in front of the British, much less Ypres, which is now a mess of ruins, have concentrated all their big guns along the British front and are constantly shelling and trying to smash as many of our troops as they can before giving way. Our brigade has suffered terribly through this during the last five days, whilst the French to our left have been left almost alone."

Estimate: £180-220
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