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3 December 2020

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№ 580

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3 December 2020

Hammer Price:
£75

War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, unnamed as issued, with Mentioned in Despatches Certificate named to ‘Captain (temp) S. F. Davies, Army Catering Corps’, extremely fine £80-£120

M.I.D. London Gazette 29 November 1945.

Sydney Frank Davies was born in Southend-on-Sea on 5 August 1912 and attested for the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) on 12 June 1940. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Army Catering Corps on 4 June 1941, he served during the Second World War in North Africa from December 1943 to October 1945, and was Mentioned in Despatches. He relinquished his commission with the rank of Major on 4 May 1948.