Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1057

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£120

Pair: Driver L. G. Deadman, a member of the Mechanical Transport Company, British South Africa Police, in the Great War

British War and Victory Medals
(MT-95 Dvr., B.S.A.P), together with the recipient’s original illuminated ‘disabled’ and ‘honourably discharged’ certificate, dated ‘16.2.19’, very fine and rare (2) £100-120

Leslie George Deadman ‘put in considerable service with the B.S.A.P. Mechanical Transport, operating in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland ... and will be particularly remembered for his services to the game of bowls, playing for Rhodesia some years ago’ (his obituary notice, The Outpost, October 1960, refers).