WW1 British War Medal Horrocks 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers, KIA Le Transloy 1916

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WW1 British War medal to Walter Hosker, 2/6th Lancashire Fusiliers, KIA 15/9/17
Impressed to :
14453 Pte. H. Horrocks. Lan. Fus.
Henry Horrocks served on the Western Front with the 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. He was killed in action on 12 October 1916 during the battalion’s unsuccessful attack towards Le Transloy, where they suffered 345 casualties. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. George Ridings originally enlisted into the Cheshire Regiment before serving on the Western Front with the 16th (Service) Battalion (2nd Salford) Lancashire Fusiliers. He was attached to the Trench Mortar Battery and was killed in action on 10 August 1918 in an attack on Damery Wood near Bouchoir. He is buried at Bouchoir New British Cemetery, France.
VF, slight ek.
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