Lot 212
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Pair: Private A.B. Swales, Yorkshire Hussars, British War and Victory Medals, nearly extremely fine, together with a studio photograph of Private Swales in uniform, the whole mounted in a contemporary glazed oak frame (2)
Pair: Private A.B. Swales, Yorkshire Hussars, British War and Victory Medals, nearly extremely fine, together with a studio photograph of Private Swales in uniform, the whole mounted in a contemporary glazed oak frame (2)

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Pair: Private A.B. Swales, Yorkshire Hussars, British War and Victory Medals, nearly extremely fine, together with a studio photograph of Private Swales in uniform, the whole mounted in a contemporary glazed oak frame (2)

Lot Essay

Private A.B. Swales, aged 25 years, from York, died of wounds on 29.9.1918. He was hit by machine-gun fire during the laying of telephone wire at Epernay, near Cambrai, while serving with the 9th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment and is buried in Bucquoy Road Cemetery.