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WW1 BRITISH ARMY OFFICERS KHAKI DRILL TUNIC
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Code: 10643
A good WW1 pattern British Officers KD tunic. Complete with all brass Norfolk Regiment buttons, Norfolk shoulder titles and majors crown. In very good condition . Medal ribbons to an officer who served in the Boer War. Officers initials to collar HW. Original document in chest pocket (Nominal roll) confirms officer to be Major H Willet of the 2nd Norfolk Regiment serving in Iraq (Mesopotamia) Most of the regiment were captured at Kut and died in captivity. This officer requires more research since he was with the 2nd Norfolk in Mesopotamia from 1914 until 1922.
1896 London Gazette confirms:
4th Volunteer .Battalion, the Norfolk Regiment,
Humphrey Louis Willett, Gent.}
• Second Lieutenant; Dated 22nd January, 1896
• Lieutenant Norfolk Regiment 1908
• 1914 to Mesopotamia
• 1922 returned to Britain from Hinaidi cantonment. (Baghdad)
