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8 September 2015

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№ 445

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8 September 2015

Hammer Price:
£90

Pair: Company Quartermaster Serjeant E. H. Davenport, Machine Gun Corps, late Warwickshire Yeomanry

British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (2446 S.Q.M. Sjt., Warwick. Yeo.) good very fine (2) £60-80

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 July 1919. ‘ 164525 Coy. Q.M. Sgt. E. H. Davenport, M.G.C.’ (France).

Lance-Corporal Edward H. Davenport, Warwickshire Yeomanry, entered the Egypt theatre of war on 11 September 1915 (entitled to 1914-15 Star). Later served as Squadron Quartermaster Serjeant with that unit and Company Quartermaster Serjeant with the Machine Gun Corps with whom he was mentioned in despatches for his services in France. With copied m.i.c.