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

№ 1387

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£90

Identity Disk (Major Lloyd Davies J.W., 203rd R.E., C.E.) , silver, with wrist chain, very fine £40-50

Sold with recipient’s riband bar: D.S.O.; M.C.; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Africa star; 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Russia, Order of St. Anne. Also with a letter to the recipient, addressed to Lt. Col. W. Lloyd-Davies, C.R.E. South, Lusaka, N. Rhodesia, handwritten, ‘Dear Lloyd-Davies, Thank you for your letter. It recalled very old memories of the last war and the Bautau (?) Division. Good Luck to you.’ signed ‘B. L. Montgomery’, dated ‘Eighth Army, 29.4.43’. All contained in leather wallet which bears a metal R.E. badge on the flap.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd-Davies gained both the D.S.O. and M.C. in the Great War.