A Great War trio to First Battle of Ypres fatal casualty Lieutenant Gerald Sclater Ingram, The

A Great War trio to First Battle of Ypres fatal casualty Lieutenant Gerald Sclater Ingram, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment: 1914 Star, with copy clasp (LIEUT: G. S. INGRAM. THE QUEEN'S R.), extremely fine or nearly so; British War Medal 1914-20 and Victory Medal (LIEUT. G. S. INGRAM.), extremely fine. [3]

Gerald Sclater Ingram was born in July 1890, an only child. He was educated at Winchester and Christ's Church College, Oxford, matriculating in 1909. He was commissioned in the 2nd Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment in February 1914 from the unattached list, and promoted Lieutenant in September of that year. The 2nd Battalion entrained at Southampton in the 4th October with Ingram in A Company under Captain H. C. Whinfield, and proceeded to Dover for embarkation for Bruges. Over the course of the early month, the Battalion advanced to positions in the area of Malle, East of Antwerp, before retiring by stages upon Ypres, where elements of C and D Companies shot down a German 'Taube' aircraft. On the 16th the Battalion moved East again and entrenched on the Zonnebeke-Langenmark road, and on the 18th they moved South to oppose a concentration of the enemy in the area of Menin. Lieutenant Igram led a party of men from A Company that surprised six Germans, killing or wounding all, before coming under enfilading fire. By the evening of the 18th the Battalion was back at Zonnebeke, and during a further withdrawal on the 21st, Lieutenant Ingram died under heavy machine gun and rifle fire.