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№ 194

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11 October 2023

Hammer Price:
£90

Three: Sergeant G. R. S. Jeram, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

British War and Victory Medals (38803 Pte. G. S. Jeram. D. of Corn. L.I.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (38803 Sjt. G. R. Jeram. D.C.L.I.) minor edge nicks, good very fine (3) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units.

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George Robert Sandell Jeram was born in Portsmouth in July 1899 and joined the Army on 8 March 1917. Mobilised into the Devonshire Regiment on 7 June 1917, he was subsequently posted to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 April 1918. Demobilised, he re-enliisted on 11 February 1919, and saw further service in Mesopotamia in 1920, and was discharged at Exeter on 31 March 1921. He died in Hampshire on 18 February 1965.

Sold with copied record of service, medal index cards, and other research.