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22 July 2016

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№ 498

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22 July 2016

Hammer Price:
£280

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (T/9441 Sgt. C. H. Doveton, A.S.C.) good very fine £260-300

C. H. Doveton was born in Bathampton, Somerset. A Collar Maker by occupation, he enlisted into the A.S.C. at Reading on 30 June 1890, aged 23 years. Served in West Africa, November 1898-April 1899 and South Africa, February-October 1900. Discharged as a Quartermaster Sergeant on 17 October 1902. Married Annie Baxley, at Farnham, Surrey, on 13 January 1900. With some copied service notes and copied roll extracts.