Description
(British Army) First Day of the Somme 1 July 1916 – Victory medal.
Named to Private Edwin William Jones, service number 4257, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Private Jones was heavy wounded at the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, and died two days later due to his wounds on 03 July 1916.
Private Jones is buried at the Couin British Cemetery at section I.C. 19.
-> https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/175103/e-w-jones/
The Victory medal is engraved with Jones’s name and service number on the rim.
The medal comes with three pages of research.
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Background:
The First Day of the Battle of the Somme was to be the first mass offensive mounted by the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the first battle to involve a large number of New Army divisions, many composed of Pals battalions that had formed after Kitchener’s call for volunteers in August 1914. In total this day 57,470 casualties suffered by the British, including 19,240 killed, which were the worst in the history of the British Army.
More background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_day_on_the_Somme
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme
