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13 September 2023

Hammer Price:
£150

Pair: Driver W. D. Martin, 1/3rd Devon Battery 4th (Wessex) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

British War Medal 1914-20 (1186 Dvr. W. D. Martin. R.A.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (1186 Dvr. W. D. Martin. R.A.) with named enclosure for BWM addressed to ‘Mrs. B. Martin, 1 Church Lane, Tavistock, Devon’, generally good very fine (2) £100-£140

Wesley Dingle Martin was the son of the late Thomas Dingle Martin and Bessie Martin, of Post Office House, Tavistock, Devon. He served during the Great War with the 1/3rd Devon Battery 4th (Wessex) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, and died in India, 15 August 1916. Driver Martin is buried in Barrackpore New Cemetery, India.