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21 May 2020

Hammer Price:
£220

Four: Sergeant W. H. Humphrey, Northamptonshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (200032 Sjt. W. Humphrey. North’d R.); British War and Victory Medals (292 Sjt. W. Humphrey. North’n. R., in envelope of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. Walter Humphrey, 92 Byron Street, Kingsley Park, Northampton’; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (292 Dmr: W. Humphries [sic] 4/Nthptn: Regt.); together with a 54th Division Egypt 1919 Prize Medal, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Hockey 2nd. Sgt. W. H. Humphrey. 1/4 Northtn. Regt.) good very fine (5) £140-£180

Walter Humphrey was born in Northampton in 1881, and attested for the Northamptonshire Regiment (Territorial Force). Serving as a Drummer, he was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 205 of July 1912. He served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 29 July 1915, and was disembodied on 6 August 1919.

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