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№ 847

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19 July 2018

Hammer Price:
£80

Pair: Company Quartermaster Sergeant E. H. Davenport, Warwickshire Yeomanry and Machine Gun Corps

British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (2446 S.Q.M. Sjt. E. H. Davenport. Warwick. Yeo.) good very fine (2) £60-80

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 July 1919.

Edward H. Davenport attested for the Warwickshire Yeomanry and served with them during the Great War in the Egypt theatre of war from 11 September 1915 (entitled to 1914-15 Star). He subsequently served as a Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant with that unit, and as a Company Quartermaster Sergeant with the Machine Gun Corps, with whom he was Mentioned in Despatches for his services on the Western Front.