Auction Catalogue

17 February 2021

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Lot

№ 373

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17 February 2021

Hammer Price:
£700

Pair: Quartermaster Sergeant J. W. Humphries, Royal Army Medical Corps, who died at home on 14 June 1919
British War and Victory Medals (10967 A. W.O. Cl. 1. J. W. Humphries. R.A.M.C.)
very fine

Family Group:

Pair:
Assistant Administrator Ethel G. Rogers, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps
British War and Victory Medals (A. Adtr. E. G. Rogers. Q.M.A.A.C.)
good very fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (H. A. Rogers. V.A.D.); together with a British Red Cross Society Badge for Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing, gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘7269 H. N. Rogers’; a British Red Cross Society County of Carmarthen Badge, gilt and enamel; and a Church of England Waifs and Strays Society Childrens Union badge, bronze, very fine (8) £80-£120

John William Humphries attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with them during the Great War on board Hospital Ships from 25 June 1915. He died at home on 14 June 1919 and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone at Surbiton Cemetery, Surrey.