A 1914 Trio to Captain L. Loewe, Royal Field Artillery, a Dickebusch Casualty, 1914 Star and later slide Bar (2.Lieut.); British War and Victory Medals, with photograph

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A 1914 Trio to Captain L. Loewe, Royal Field Artillery, a Dickebusch Casualty, 1914 Star and later slide Bar (2.Lieut.); British War and Victory Medals, with photograph

A Rare 1914-15 Trio to Gunner S. Stebbing, Motorised Machine Gun Section, Royal Field Artillery, 1914-15 Star (M.M.G.S.); British War and Victory Medals, with identity disc, both groups extremely fine (6)

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INDENTCaptain Leopold Loewe of Cobham, Surrey, a Cadet Officer at Tonbridge O.T.C., was commissioned in the Special Reserve R.F.A., 1912 and transferred to the R.F.A. the following year; he proceeded to the Front 17 August 1914 with 109th Battery R.F.A.; Lieutenant June 1915, Captain (Temp.) February 1916. Captain Loewe was on duty at Dickebush, 6 April 1916 together with another officer in a telephone dug-out, when a gas shell killed them both

181 Gunner Sydney Stebbing of St Mary's, Coventry, was the third casualty of the Section in action; he died of wounds received at Zonnebeke 4 May 1915 and is buried in Hazebrouch Communal Cemetery

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