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Three: Second Lieutenant E. S. Strachan, 1/8th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire...
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1914-15 Star (2.Lt. E. S. Strachan. Notts. & Derby. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lt. E. S. Strachan.) nearly extremely fine (3) £180-£220
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Edward Stanley Strachan was born on 25 July 1879, son of James Edward Strachan, a wine and spirit merchant in London. He was educated at Merchant Taylors School before going up to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge University Volunteers and subsequently the Ciivl Service Rifles. He entered his father’s business before becoming a partner in the wine business of T. Forman & Co., of Market Hill, Luton. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the 1/8th (Territorial) Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, on 7 April 1915, and went to France on 17 June. He took part in several actions before being reported missing, believed killed, in the attack on on the Hohenzollern Redoubt on 14 October 1915. Aged 36, he has no known grave and is commemorated by name on the Loos Memorial.
1914-15 Star (2.Lt. E. S. Strachan. Notts. & Derby. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lt. E. S. Strachan.) nearly extremely fine (3) £180-£220
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Edward Stanley Strachan was born on 25 July 1879, son of James Edward Strachan, a wine and spirit merchant in London. He was educated at Merchant Taylors School before going up to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge University Volunteers and subsequently the Ciivl Service Rifles. He entered his father’s business before becoming a partner in the wine business of T. Forman & Co., of Market Hill, Luton. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the 1/8th (Territorial) Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, on 7 April 1915, and went to France on 17 June. He took part in several actions before being reported missing, believed killed, in the attack on on the Hohenzollern Redoubt on 14 October 1915. Aged 36, he has no known grave and is commemorated by name on the Loos Memorial.
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