Auction Catalogue

2 December 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 549

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2 December 2009

Hammer Price:
£35

Pair: Sapper W. Harfield, Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals (174922 Spr., R.E.) nearly extremely fine (2) £30-40

William Harfield was born in Cheriton, Hampshire, lived in Liss and enlisted at London. Serving as a Sapper with the Railway Operating Division of the Royal Engineers, he died in Egypt on 7 November 1918, aged 34 years. He was buried in the Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery. He was the son of William Mary Anne Harfield of Easton, Winchester, Hants. With copied m.i.c.