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25 May 2022

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№ 447

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25 May 2022

Hammer Price:
£90

British War Medal 1914-20 (6) (O. Bain.; P. L. Boddy.; H. Burgess.; J. Cooper; W. Hall; D. Davis.) last lacking suspension and planchet only, generally very fine (6) £100-£140

Otto Bain was born Otto Holtzmann in London in 1882, and changed his surname in 1915. He is recorded as serving on the S.S. Aros Castle in 1915; the Aros Castle was torpedoed and sunk on 21 November 1917. He died in 1941.

Percy Lawrence Boddy, H. Burgess, J. Cooper, W. Hall, and D. Davis all served with the Mercantile Marine.