Auction Catalogue

24 & 25 June 2009

Starting at 2:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 328

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25 June 2009

Hammer Price:
£220

Six: Gunner Harold Targett, Royal Artillery

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (874169 Gnr., R.A.) mounted as worn; The King’s Badge, in card box of issue, good very fine and better (7) £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Harold Targett was born in Southampton on 30 October 1919. A Factory Hand by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Artillery (T.A.) before the war. He served throughout the war as a Gunner, latterly with the 68th Field Regiment R.A. Awarded the Efficiency Medal (Territorial), notified in List No. 4 of August 1946. Targett died of Tuberculosis in the Southampton Isolation Hospital on 8 February 1947.

Sold with recipient’s Soldier’s Release Book; Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates; two photographs; an embroidered sampler and copied research.