Auction Catalogue

19–21 June 2013

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 570

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19 June 2013

Hammer Price:
£310

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2/Lt. R. B. V. Savill, Kings Own) nearly extremely fine £200-240

The Times of 26 May 1939 reported under ‘Disturbances in Palestine’, Jerusalem 25 May. ..... Mr Reginald Bernard Veilly Savill, second lieutenant, the 2nd Battalion, The King’s Own Royal Regiment, who died at the age of 27 from injuries received when a military lorry overturned on the Hebron road yesterday, was buried in the military cemetery at Ramleh today. His father is Major Savill, late The Berkshire Regiment, of Reading .....’

The Times suggests that the accident was caused by sabotage as a number of similar incidents had occured throughout the period.