Lot Archive

Lot

№ 257

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£150

1914 Star (16839 Pte. L. G. Lowe, 2/G. Gds.); 1914-15 Star (6265 Pte. W. Brown, Shrops. L.I.); Mercantile Marine Medal 1914-18, edge marked ‘Specimen’; Victory Medal 1914-19 (4) (16784 Pte. F. C. Putt, Devon R.; S-172044 Pte. H. E. Chapman, A.S.C.; 11193 A-A. Fwn. E. L. Butler, Q.M.A.A.C.); another, erased; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Mohmand 1933 (TD-400010 C-Dvr. Ali Mohd., 37 A.T. Coy.) good very fine (8) £70-90

Leonard George Lowe was born in St. Werburghs, Derbyshire and enlisted at Derby. Serving with the 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards, he was killed in action, France / Flanders, on 1 December 1917. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louveral.

C-Dvr.= Camel Driver.