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Auction: 13003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 71

(x) Family Group:
Three: Sergeant J. H. Mangum, Middlesex Regiment
1914-15 Star (2058 Pte. J.H. Mangum. Midd'x R.); British War and Victory Medals (2058 Sjt. J.H. Mangum. Midd'x R.), good very fine

Pair: Private A.G. Mangum, East Surrey Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (33337 Pte. A.G. Mangum. E. Surr. R.), nearly extremely fine

British War Medal (901 Pte. J.H. Mangum. Rif. Brig.), good very fine

Family Group:
Pair: Private P. Ledger, King's Royal Rifle Corps
British War and Victory Medals (R-21766 Pte. P. Ledger. K.R. Rif. C.), BWM officially renamed, extremely fine, together with the recipient's two identity tags

Three: Corporal P.W. Ledger, Royal Air Force Regiment
France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, extremely fine, in card box of issue, named to 'P.W. Ledger, Esq., 44 Carden Road, Peckham, London S.E.15', with Air Council enclosure and entitlement slip; the recipient's two identity tags; and a Royal Air Force Association lapel badge (11)

2058 Sergeant John Henry Mangum, born Marylebone, London, 1895, the son of Rifleman J.H. Mangum; served during the Great War in the 2/10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 1.8.1915, landing at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 22.8.1915, and subsequently served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from 19.3.1916; wounded by gunshot in the right arm and thigh in the First Battle of Gaza, 27.3.1917; transferred to the 2/22nd County of London Battalion (The Queen's), 3.8.1918, and served with them in Palestine; wounded by gunshot in the abdominal wall in the Battle of Sharon, 19.9.1918; promoted Sergeant, 10.11.1918; died Willesden, Middlesex, 1964.

33337 Private Alfred George Mangum, born North Kensington, London, the son of Rifleman J.H. Mangum, and the younger brother of Sergeant J.H. Mangum, February 1898; served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment on the Western Front from 5.6.1917; transferred to the 2/10th Battalion Manchester Regiment, 20.6.1917; died Gravesend, Kent, 1994.

901 Rifleman John Henry Mangum, father of the above, born Boston, Massachusetts, 1871; served during the Great War with the 18th Foreign Service Battalion, Rifle Brigade, in Rangoon, Burma from 22.12.1915 (only entitled to BWM); died Ealing, Middlesex, 1953.

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