Auction Catalogue

4 & 5 March 2020

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 367

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4 March 2020

Hammer Price:
£280

Pair: Lieutenant J. D. Hawkins, Yorkshire Regiment
1914-15 Star (Lieut. J. D. Hawkins. York. R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. J. D. Hawkins.) good very fine

Pair:
Second Lieutenant A. E. Ratcliffe, Leicestershire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. A. E. Ratcliffe.) very fine

Pair: Lieutenant R. Scott
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. Scott.) good very fine

Pair:
Private E. Harper, Grenadier Guards
British War and Victory Medals (32085 Pte. E. Harper. G. Gds.) polished, very fine

Pair: Private G. A. Brown, Northumberland Fusiliers
British War and Victory Medals (39495 Pte. G. A. Brown. North’d. Fus.) good very fine

Pair: Private A. Peck, Lancashire Fusiliers
British War and Victory Medals (325045 Pte. A. Peck. Lanc. Fus.) very fine

Pair: Private L. Edwards, Manchester Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (61225 Pte. L. Edwards. Manc. R.) with lid of card box of issue, with outer transmittal envelope addressed to ‘Mr. L. Edwards, 18 Court Road, Cardiff’; together with the the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘491193’, good very fine (14) £140-£180

John Dudley Hawkins was commissioned into the Yorkshire Regiment and served with the 10th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 September 1915. He relinquished his commission on 1 October 1918, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

Archibald Ernest Ratcliffe was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Leicestershire Regiment on 30 May 1917, and served during the Great War with the 4th Battalion on the Western Front from 10 July 1917.

Ernest James Harper was born in 1892 and attested for the Grenadier Guards at Kensington, London. In civilian life he served as a Police Constable, and in the 1939 Census is listed as a Special Constable living at 23 Connaught Gardens, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.