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№ 180

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9 October 2024

Hammer Price:
£170

Five: Lieutenant L. W. Thain, Lincolnshire Regiment, late Suffolk Yeomanry, later Royal Artillery (T.A.) and Special Constabulary

1914-15 Star (1510 L.Cpl. L. W. Thain. Suff. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. L. W. Thain.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (539417 B.Q.M. Sjt. L. W. Thain. R.A.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Leonard W. Thain.) nearly very fine and better (5) £100-£140

Leonard William Thain served in the Balkan theatre of operations with the Suffolk Yeomanry from 8 October 1915, the reverse to his MIC recording his home address as ‘Decoy Poultry Farm, Ashby, Nr. Lowestoft’. Appointed to a Commission in the Lincolnshire Regiment 27 March 1917, he transferred post-war to the Royal Artillery (T.A.) as Battery Quartermaster Sergeant and was awarded the Territorial Efficiency Medal in 1927.