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Four: Private H. Woolams, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1914-15 Star (4457 Pte., R. War. R.); British War and Victory Medals (4457 Pte., R. War. R.); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, good very fine (4)

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Four: Private H. Woolams, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1914-15 Star (4457 Pte., R. War. R.); British War and Victory Medals (4457 Pte., R. War. R.); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, good very fine (4)
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Private Harold Woolams, a Birmingham man, first entered the French Theatre of War in late July 1915 and is verified as having been awarded the Croix de Guerre for services with the 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (London Gazette 29.1.1919 refers). As part of 57th Brigade, 19th Division, the Battalion had been heavily employed on the Somme from July to November 1916.