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№ 556

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13 January 2021

Hammer Price:
£170

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (D. E. Haggard; D. G. Pelton) second in original named card box of issue, nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£120

Doris Elizabeth Haggard was born on 12 March 1890 and served with the YMCA during the Great War at Rouen from June 1915 to August 1918. She subsequently married Walter Frank Sheldham, a Major in the Indian Army, and a former First Class cricketer for Somerset, and died in 1979.

Dorothy G. Pelton served with the YMCA during the Great War in France from May 1917, and subsequently married a man named Dickens.