Auction Catalogue

29 March 2000

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 873

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29 March 2000

Hammer Price:
£330

Three: Private W. F. Lakey, 10th Battalion, Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal;
together with illuminated memorial scroll, this named ‘Private W. F. Lakey, Army Air Corps’, contained in a glazed oak frame, extremely fine (3) £140-180

Private William Frank Lakey was killed in action at Arnhem on 19 September 1944 and is buried at Arnhem Oosterbeek Cemetery. On this same day Captain L. E. Queripel, Royal Susssex Regiment, attached 10th Battalion Parachute Regiment gained the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross. Sold with copied research detail.