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№ 235

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17 July 2024

Hammer Price:
£280

Three: Second Lieutenant D. V. Humphreys, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, late Royal Army Medical Corps

1914-15 Star (127 Pte. D. Humphreys. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. D. V. Humphreys.); Memorial Plaque (David Virgil Humphreys) small verdigris spot to plaque, otherwise extremely fine (4) £140-£180

David Virgil Humphreys attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 January 1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 14th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 6 July 1916, he was killed in action on 24 April 1917; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Sold with Buckingham Palace enclosure and named Record Office enclosure.