Special Collections

Sold on 5 April 2006

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A Collection of Medals to the Durham Light Infantry and associated units

Lot

№ 199

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£170

Three: Lieutenant E. K. Wyatt, Durham Light Infantry, late Hampshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); India General Service 1908-351 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (2 Lieut., Durham L.I.), rank corrected on last, nearly extremely fine (3) £80-100

Eric Keynes Wyatt enlisted as a Private in the 2nd/7th Battalion Hampshire Regiment and served in Mesopotamia from October 1916. He was commissioned as a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Durham Light Infantry on 19 August 1918 and a Temporary Lieutenant on 19 February 1920. He relinquished his commission on completion of service on 23 December 1923. Sold with copied m.i.c.