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№ 394

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23 February 2022

Hammer Price:
£280

Seven: Lieutenant L. C. Humphrey, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, late Royal Army Ordnance Corps, attached 7th Light Tank Company

India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (7583126 Armr. Sjt. L. C. Humphreys [sic]. R.A.O.C.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (7583126 WO 1 L C Humphrey REME) the last a somewhat later issue, nearly extremely fine (7) £160-£200

L. C. Humphrey attested for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and served as an Armourer Lance Sergeant attached to the 7th Light Tank Company on the North West Frontier. He is listed in the October 1943 and October 1944 Army Lists, as Humphrey, L.C., War Substantive Sergeant Major, R.E.M.E. Armourer Section, and was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers on 14 January 1945.