Miscellaneous Great War Trios and Pairs to Officers, comprising: A Great War 1914 15 Star Trio awarded to Harry Wignall Cattrall, Royal Air Force, late 16th (1st City Pals) Battalion, Manchester Regiment, 1914-15 Star (6591 Sgt. H.W. Cattrall, Manch. R,), British War and Victory Medals, 1914-1920 (2. Lieut. H. W. Cattrall.); Pair awarded to Lieutenant Robert Stratford Howard Saunders, “D” Battery, 330th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, British War and Victory Medals, 1914-1920 (Lieut. R.S.H. Saunders.); British War and Victory Medal Pair (Lieut. J.E.A. Simpson); Pair awarded to Second Lieutenant Charles Leslie Elvey, 5th Battalion Suffolk Regiment, British War and Victory medals (2. Lieut. C.L. Elvey), pair court mounted for display, generally extremely fine (9) Second Lieutenant Harry Wignall Cattrall, of Aigburth, Liverpool, initially served in WWI with the 16th (1st City Pals) Battalion, Manchester Regiment, being promoted from Lance-Corporal to Corporal on 1 July 1916 (1st Day of the Somme) and then to Sergeant just a few days later on 10 July. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant with the 4th Battalion on 21 June 1917, later joining the R.A.F. Research suggests that his son, Sergeant Phillip Rodney Cattrall, R.A.F.V.R., was killed in action in WW2 on 15 March 1944.Lieutenant Robert Stratford Howard Saunders, of Southampton, served with ‘D’ Battery of the 330th Brigade, R.G.A., and died of wounds on 12 April 1918, aged 19. He is buried in the St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen.Second Lieutenant Charles Leslie Elvey, of Streatham, South London, served with the 5th Battalion Suffolk Regiment (T.F.) and was killed in action on 9 April 1917. He is buried in the Tiffloy British Cemetery, France.Lieutenant John Edward Alan Simpson was commissioned as Second Lieutenant (Temporary) on 15 September 1915, and served with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War, reaching the rank of Lieutenant. Research suggests that he was born on 21 September 1894, and died 24 June 1966 and was buried at Boldre, Lymington.

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