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Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2357 Sq: Sjt: Maj: R. P. Bailey. 6/Dgn: Gds:) good very fine £70-£90

Richard Percival Bailey was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, in 1866 and attested for the 6th Dragoon Guards at Canterbury on 15 August 1885. He transferred to the Yorkshire Hussars on 7 July 1899, and was appointed Quartermaster, with the honorary rank of lieutenant, on 9 October 1914. He died in York on 30 May 1915, and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Manchester Southern Cemetery. He was not entitled to any Great War medals, and his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal is his sole medallic entitlement.

Sold with copied service papers and a file of research.