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Corp. W. Landy QSA Boer War, Purple Heart, 26th Div. WW1


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Here is a group to Corp. William Landy who served in the 5th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War. He earned a Queen’s South Africa medal with the clasps South Africa 1902, Orange Free State and Cape Colony. The medal is named to him around the rim. Landy’s name is spelled Laudy. Along with the QSA is a Manchester cap badge. Landy served in Battery “D”, 55th Artillery of the 26th Division during WW1. He was wounded in action during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive on Oct. 3rd, 1918. The group has all of Landy’s original paperwork including his birth certificate, British Army Discharge, US Army Discharge, US Naturalization papers and his Death Certificate. His Purple Heart is #3558.

Dick

 

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Dick

As usual superb and unique group with historical significance. I find the documentation is the star of the group IMHO. It grounds the pieces in that you get to see the writing that makes the events real on another level. Corporal Landy did the fighting and someone did the writing, witnessing back then what we consider history today.

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Wow! Cool grouping! Does the discharge really say he was only five foot two and a half inches tall? Out of curiosity . . . where was he fighting in 1938 to get WIA and the PH?

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I'm thinking the date for WIA was 10-3-18 (looks like they tried to correct 38 to 18). That would be before WWI ended. May have just taken 14 years to award the Purple Heart in 1932.

 

Just noticed the Honorable Discharge - it does list the WIA as Oct. 3, 1918.

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DocCollector1441

That is an awesome group. I could not tell from the documentation (sadly I have an easier time reading Suetterlin and Kurrentschrift on German documentation than old English handwriting) was Corp. Landy from England and immigrate to the US or was he from the US and go England to fight before coming back?

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