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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 125

Four: Captain V.E. Farr, County of London Home Guard A.A. Rocket Battery, Late Royal Fusiliers and Bedfordshire Regiment; and Registrar of the Chancery Division of the Supreme Court
1914-15 Star (PS-4803 Pte. V.E. Farr. R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. V.E. Farr.); Defence Medal, good very fine, with the recipient's Army Athletic Club Prize Medal, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham), the reverse engraved 'Public Schools Boxing Competition Middleweights Second Prize 1912'; riband bar; rank and unit insignia; whistle; and the following related documents &c.:
- Commission appointing Vivian Eric Farr a Second Lieutenant in the Territorial Force, dated 27.6.1917
- Royal Humane Society Certificate on Vellum, awarded to V.E. Farr, and dated 3.8.1921, together with Air Ministry letter of thanks
- The recipient's Law Society Preliminary and Final Examination Certificates
- The Recipient's Articles of Clerkship
- Certificate Appointing the recipient a Solicitor of the Supreme Court, dated 1.5.1922
- Five invitations to the recipient from the Lord Chancellor
- Portrait photograph of the recipient (4)

Captain Vivian Eric Farr, enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers and served with the 20th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14.11.1915; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Bedfordshire Regiment, 27.6.1917; awarded the Royal Humane Society Certificate on Vellum 'for having , on the 15th May 1921, at great personal risk, gallantly attempted to rescue Aircraftsman F.L. Turner who was unfortunately drowned whilst punting on the Ouse at Bedford'; according to the Court of Enquiry into the death Farr 'dived many times into the water in an endeavour to reach him, and only relinquished his efforts when almost exhausted' (letter from the Air Ministry refers); appointed Clerk to the Registrars, Chancery Division, Supreme Court of Judicature, February 1929; Registrar, December 1943; served during the Second War with the 192 A.A. Rocket Battery (106th Battalion County of London Home Guard); promoted Captain, 4.9.1944.

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