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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 237

A rare Great War Buckingham Palace memorial scroll to Lieutenant F. A. P. D'Auvergne, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry

In a contemporary display frame, in good condition

Francis Arthur Payn D'Auvergne lived at 'Northdale', St. Ouen, Jersey and was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey. Having then served in the West Battalion of the Royal Militia on Jersey, he was one of four Jersey Garrison Battalion Lieutenants to be transferred to the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry on 4 August 1917. He was killed in action on 12 April 1918, aged 24, the only Jersey officer to be killed with the R.G.L.I.; sold with copied service papers, including photograph of D'Auvergne.

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Sold for
£200