Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Serjeant H. H. Davis, Coldstream Guards, late Cameronians, wounded by a V-1 flying bomb at the Guards Chapel, 18 June 1944
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1937, these unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (323374 Musician, C. Gds.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (323374 Sjt., Coldm. Gds.); together with cap badges of the Cameronians and Coldstream Guards, contact marks, nearly very fine (9) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Coldstream Guards, R.F.C., R.N.A.S. and R.A.F. formed by the late Tom Baugh.

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Herbert Henry Davis was born in Newcastle-under-Lyne on 27 December 1903. He enlisted at Burslem as a Boy on 22 July 1918, serving with the Cameronians. Attended course of instruction at Kneller Hall School of Music, March 1921-March 1922. Discharged as a Bandsman into the Army Reserve on 19 March 1928. Enlisted into the Coldstream Guards as a Musician on 20 March 1928. Awarded the Long Service Medal in 1937. Davis served in the U.S.A., April-June 1939 and N.W. Europe, December 1944-January 1945. On 18 June 1944 while on duty in the Guards Chapel, London, he was wounded by enemy action when a German V-1 flying bomb scored a direct hit - he sustained head injuries, lacerations to the face, hands and left elbow, with a contused lumbar, spine and ribs. Awarded the M.S.M. in 1951, he was discharged as permanently unfit due to tuberculosis on 16 February 1954. With copied service papers.