Pair: Peter Buhot, Mercantile Marine

British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Peter Buhot), very fine or better (2) £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Awards to Channel Islanders.

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Peter Buhot was born in Guernsey in January 1900 and served as an Able Seaman in the Mercantile Marine during the Great War, being present aboard the 54-ton Jersey ketch Alabama on the occasion of her being wrecked on 12 March 1917. He later served in the Devonshire Regiment, the ribands of the above described awards being sent to him at the Regimental Depot in Exeter in September 1919, while the medals themselves were sent to him at 56 King Street, Jersey in March 1922. And by the time of the German occupation of Jersey in 1940, he was living with his son Francis at 42 Union Road, St. Helier - a copy of his German I.D. card and photograph is available from the Jersey Heritage Trust Archives; sold with copied research.