Lot 515
A DORSET YEOMANRY TRIO & PLAQUE.
A 1914/15 Star, British War & Victory Medals named to 1496 Pte F C Wickstead Dorset Yeo. A Death Plaque named to Frederick Wickstead.
1496 & 230748 Pte F Wickstead from Preston Dorset enlisted at Sherborne Dorset. He was Killed in Action 22/11/1917 (Egypt) Mentioned in Despatches LG 12/1/1918. Commemorated on Panel 3 Jerusalem Memorial.
The Dorset Yeomanry landed in Egypt from Gallipoli in 1916, Pte Wickstead was to take part in many actions, including the one where Capt Harry Hoare heir to the Stourhead Estate received his fatal wounds. They both fell during the heavy fighting before and after the famous El Mughar charge by the Dorset & Bucks Yeomanry.
