Lot 523
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Three: 2nd Lieutenant O.W. Thornhill, Royal Fusiliers, Late Honourable Artillery Company, 1914-15 Star (Pte., H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.), extremely fine, together with a Special Constabulary Faithful Service, G.V.R., with clasp for 'The Great War 1914-18' (Hubert Thornhill) (4)

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Three: 2nd Lieutenant O.W. Thornhill, Royal Fusiliers, Late Honourable Artillery Company, 1914-15 Star (Pte., H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.), extremely fine, together with a Special Constabulary Faithful Service, G.V.R., with clasp for 'The Great War 1914-18' (Hubert Thornhill) (4)

Lot Essay

2nd Lieutenant Oliver Walter Thornhill was born in May 1878 and was a member of the Stock Exchange pre-War. He first entered the French Theatre of War as a Private in the H.A.C. at the end of December 1914. Slightly wounded in March and June 1915, he was unlucky enough to get on the wrong side of enemy fire for a third time that September ('Gunshot wound back and leg'). Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the Royal Fusiliers in January 1916, Thornhill appears to have finished the War as a 'Bombing Instructor' with the Royal Sussex Regiment.