Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Three: Private P. G. Alves, Dorsetshire Regiment, who was killed in action at Gallipoli on 9 August 1915
1914-15 Star (10905 Pte. P. G. Alver. Dorset: R.); British War and Victory Medals (10905 Pte. P. G. Alver. Dorset. R.) very fine

National Fire Brigades Union Long Service medal, silver, with ‘Twenty Years’, the reverse engraved (Lieutenant G. Alves, Feb 6th 1913) the edge numbered ‘1019’, with top ‘Twenty Years’ riband bar, extremely fine (4) £100-£140

Percy George Alves was born in Glastonbury, Somerset, in 1894. He attested into the Dorset Regiment for service during the Great War and served at Gallipoli with the 5th Battalion from 11 July 1915. He was killed in action less than a month later, on 9 August 1915, during the attack on Kiretch Tepe Sirt, at Suvla Bay, and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

George Alves the borough surveyor for Glastonbury, as well as a Lieutenant with the local fire brigade and father of the above, was born in 1856. He was awarded his National Fire Brigades Long Service Medal on 6 February 1913.

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