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17 September 2020

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Lot

№ 315

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17 September 2020

Hammer Price:
£280

Pair: Second Lieutenant P. H. H. Davis, 9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front, 9 November 1918

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. P. H. Davis.); Memorial Plaque (Philip Henry Halton Davis) nearly extremely fine (3) £140-£180

Philip Henry Halton Davis was the son of W. H. H. Davis, and resided with his wife at ‘Kohima’, Milton-under-Wychwood, Oxford. He served during the Great War as a Second Lieutenant with the 9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment in the French theatre of war from 17 August 1918. Second Lieutenant Davis died of wounds on the Western Front, 9 November 1918, and is buried in Busigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France. He is also commemorated on the Cheadle Hulme War Memorial.