Lot 52
Wounded Gallipoli and France
"Behind The Wire" - Medal and Militaria Sale | M25001
Auction: 17 September 2025 at 14:00 BST
Description
A Royal Engineers Gallipoli Casualty wounded in August 1915 and then again in 1917 on the western Front awarded to Driver Lewis Fry Royal Engineers, 1st London Division Signal Company, comprising 1914-15 Star, (1596 Dvr. L. Fry. R.E.), 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals, (1596 Dvr L. Fry. R.E.), contemporarily mounted for wear, toned very fine, (3)
Lewis Fry Attested for the Royal Engineers, Territorial Force on the 30th of November 1914 signing the Imperial Overseas Service Paperwork on the same day he was mobilised on the 1st of December 1914 and served Home until the 16th of March 1915 when he sailed for Egypt arriving t=in Thaete on the 30th of March. He proceeded to the Gallipoli Peninsula where he was wounded on the 1st July 1915 with a Gun Shot Wound to his Arm. He returned to Egypt and left the Mediterranean Theatre on the 13th of March 1916 moving to the Western Front where he was again wounded on the same day two years later a Gun Shot Wound Arm on the 1st of July 1917. He returned to England on the 2nd of April 1919 and was discharged on the 4th of May 1919.
Sold with RE Cap Badge RE Shoulder Titles and 7 Schools attendance Medals from 1900 to 1907 all engraved (L. Fry) and a Chelsea Schools George V Coronation Medal engraved (L. Fry)
Sold with Copy Service and Pension Papers, Copy Medal Rolls Copy Medal Index Card.
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