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Pair: Driver P. Byrne, Army Service Corps 1914 Star (T-33456 Dvr: P. Byrne. A.S.C.);...
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1914 Star (T-33456 Dvr: P. Byrne. A.S.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (T-33456 Dvr. P. Byrne. A.S.C.) nearly very fine
Three: Private G. H. Olley, Royal Army Medical Corps
1914-15 Star (61030 Pte. G. H. Olley. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (61030 Pte. G. H. Olley. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn together with a copy Victoria Cross, generally very fine (6) £100-£140
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Patrick Byrne attested for the Army Service Corps and served with 14th Infantry Brigade HQ during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914.
Gerald Hugh Olley was born in Eaton, Norfolk, on 4 June 1896 and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps at Norwich on 10 July 1915. He served with them during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War from 7 December 1915, and then in Salonika, before being discharged no longer physically fit for War service at Woking on 23 May 1918, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. He subsequently emigrated to South Africa, later becoming a salesman for the British Trading Association, and subsequently settled at Fort Victoria, Rhodesia. There is no record of him being awarded the Victoria Cross.
Sold with copied Discharge Certificate and other research.
1914 Star (T-33456 Dvr: P. Byrne. A.S.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (T-33456 Dvr. P. Byrne. A.S.C.) nearly very fine
Three: Private G. H. Olley, Royal Army Medical Corps
1914-15 Star (61030 Pte. G. H. Olley. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (61030 Pte. G. H. Olley. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn together with a copy Victoria Cross, generally very fine (6) £100-£140
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Patrick Byrne attested for the Army Service Corps and served with 14th Infantry Brigade HQ during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914.
Gerald Hugh Olley was born in Eaton, Norfolk, on 4 June 1896 and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps at Norwich on 10 July 1915. He served with them during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War from 7 December 1915, and then in Salonika, before being discharged no longer physically fit for War service at Woking on 23 May 1918, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. He subsequently emigrated to South Africa, later becoming a salesman for the British Trading Association, and subsequently settled at Fort Victoria, Rhodesia. There is no record of him being awarded the Victoria Cross.
Sold with copied Discharge Certificate and other research.
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