VICTORY MEDAL, 1914-1919 (2. Lieut. F.R. Goshawk.); officially impressed. A few very light scuffs, otherwise a lustrous extremely fine. Captain Frank Roy Goshawk, of Streatham, London, was born on the 6th of November 1893 and attested for service with the 17th Battalion Royal Fusiliers on the 9th of September, 1914, having previously worked as a Clerk. He applied for a temporary commission on the 23rd of January 1915. Receiving his commission into the 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment, he served a total of 5 and a half years, and subsequent to the war he appears to have served in the United States Rubber Company, Chicago, and was claiming a wound pension, having received a gunshot wound and fracture to the right leg on the First Day of the Somme, the 1st of July 1916. Sold with copy attestation and service papers, and MIC confirming this award, and that he was entitled to a WWI Pair. He appears to have retired on the 30th of May 1924.
VICTORY MEDAL, 1914-1919 (2. Lieut. F.R. Goshawk.); officially impressed. A few very light scuffs, otherwise a lustrous extremely fine. Captain Frank Roy Goshawk, of Streatham, London, was born on the 6th of November 1893 and attested for service with the 17th Battalion Royal Fusiliers on the 9th of September, 1914, having previously worked as a Clerk. He applied for a temporary commission on the 23rd of January 1915. Receiving his commission into the 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment, he served a total of 5 and a half years, and subsequent to the war he appears to have served in the United States Rubber Company, Chicago, and was claiming a wound pension, having received a gunshot wound and fracture to the right leg on the First Day of the Somme, the 1st of July 1916. Sold with copy attestation and service papers, and MIC confirming this award, and that he was entitled to a WWI Pair. He appears to have retired on the 30th of May 1924.
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