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1914-15 Star (2) (56105. Pte C. H. Heffer. R.A.M.C.; Nsg-Sister M. A. Lang); Victory Medal 1914-19 (I. A. M. Plunket.) good very fine (3) £80-£100
Cecil Howard Heffer, a native of Sutton, Surrey was 19 when he attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps on 23 February 1915. He served with the R.A.M.C. during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 May 1915 and at some point was attached to the Leinster Regiment, proceeding with them to the Middle East, and was with them when he was killed in action on 16 March 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial.
Sold with personal effects, including correspondence to his father, identity discs, Red Cross Arm band, shoulder titles &c.
Mary Agnes Lang served during the Great War on board a hospital ship as Nursing Sister from June 1915; her Medal Index Card indicates that her 1914-15 Star was ‘issued by the Government of India’.
Irene A M Plunket served as an Orderly with the British Committee of the French Red Cross in the Balkans from April until November 1917.
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