Auction Catalogue

27 & 28 June 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 987

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28 June 2012

Hammer Price:
£65

Pair: Private E. D. Claydon, 17th London Regiment, who was killed in action at Bapaume in September 1918

British War and Victory Medals (554986 Pte. E. D. Claydon, 16-Lond. R.), good very fine or better (2) £50-70

Ernest Digby Claydon, who was born in Camberwell, London, originally enlisted in the 16th Battalion, London Regiment, in which capacity he first went out to France, but at the time of his death in action at Bapaume on 1 September 1918, he was serving in the 17th (County of London) Battalion (Poplar and Stepney Rifles). Entitled to the British War and Victory Medals (his MIC refers), he is buried in the Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension on the Somme.