Auction Catalogue

2 April 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1129

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£330

Three: Gunner C. N. Seymour, Canadian Field Artillery

1914-15 Star (83118 Gnr., Can. Fd. Art.); British War and Victory Medals (83118 Gnr., C.F.A.); together with Memorial Plaque (Charles Nicholson Seymour) extremely fine (4) £140-180

Charles Nicholson Seymour, son of John Nicholson Seymour of Azabu, Tokyo, Japan, was killed in action on 10 November 1917, aged 22 years, whilst serving with the 6th Battery Canadian Field Artillery. He was buried in the Dochy Farm New British Cemetery.

Sold with (damaged) card boxes of issue for the 1914-15 Star trio together with accompanying slips and an original handwritten letter reporting on the recipient’s grave, in original registered envelope addressed to ‘Miss Hannah K. Seymour, Dublin, Ireland, dated June 1920. Together with several typewritten copies of that report.