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Pair: Private T. Ovall, East Surrey Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front...
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Pair: Private T. Ovall, East Surrey Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front from 1 October 1918 British War and Victory Medals (48324 Pte. T. Ovall. E. Surr. R.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Ovall) this housed in circular frame; Memorial Scroll \Pte. Thomas Ovall, E. Surrey Regt.’, extremely fine (4) £140-£180 --- Thomas Ovall was born at South Weald, Billericay, Essex, on 7 September 1896 and attested for the East Surrey Regiment, serving with the 12th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 1 October 1918, and is buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. Family tradition has it that he defied his parents to volunteer from his reserved occupation as a young farm labourer in the dying days of the Great War, and was killed in action a few days after his arrival on the Western Front. Sold with a quantity of original documents and ephemera, including the recipient’s original birth certificate; a pre-Great War photograph; his letters home from the front; official notification of death; original photograph of wooden cross and accompanying letter from Imperial War Graves Commission; and other research.
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Pair: Private T. Ovall, East Surrey Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front from 1 October 1918 British War and Victory Medals (48324 Pte. T. Ovall. E. Surr. R.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Ovall) this housed in circular frame; Memorial Scroll \Pte. Thomas Ovall, E. Surrey Regt.’, extremely fine (4) £140-£180 --- Thomas Ovall was born at South Weald, Billericay, Essex, on 7 September 1896 and attested for the East Surrey Regiment, serving with the 12th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 1 October 1918, and is buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. Family tradition has it that he defied his parents to volunteer from his reserved occupation as a young farm labourer in the dying days of the Great War, and was killed in action a few days after his arrival on the Western Front. Sold with a quantity of original documents and ephemera, including the recipient’s original birth certificate; a pre-Great War photograph; his letters home from the front; official notification of death; original photograph of wooden cross and accompanying letter from Imperial War Graves Commission; and other research.
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