Auction Catalogue

10 April 2024

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Lot

№ 195

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10 April 2024

Hammer Price:
£85

Three: Driver J. Lewis, Royal Field Artillery

1914 Star, with clasp (8258 Dvr: J. Lewis. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (RFRA-8258 Dvr. J. Lewis. R.A.) mounted as worn, the first gilded, very fine (3) £70-£90

James Lewis was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1890. He attested for the Royal Artillery on 24 August 1909 and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 August 1914. Posted to 56 Battery, R.F.A., he survived the War, but was later reduced in the ranks for insubordination.