Auction Catalogue

21 September 2007

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 772

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21 September 2007

Hammer Price:
£370

Pair: Second Lieutenant C. G. B. Harrison, Royal Berkshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Memorial Plaque (Cecil George Bradford Harrison), last in card envelope with accompanying slip, extremely fine (3)

Cecil George Bradford Harrison, formerly an employee of the Central Argentine Railways, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 4 May 1916 as a Private in the 19th Battalion Royal Fusiliers. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, he was killed in action on 13 August 1916. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Sold with copied research including a copy of the recipient’s Will.