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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 452

An interesting 14th/20th King's Hussars Regimental Merit Medal named to Lieutenant-Colonel J. D. L. de Wend-Fenton, King's Own Hussars

14th/20th King's Hussars Merit Medal, 20mm, silver, the rim engraved 'Major J. D. L. De Wend Fenton' and the reverse dated '1933', planchet a little buckled, nonetheless very fine, mounted as worn upon pin

James Douglas Leonard de Wend-Fenton served with the 3rd King's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps during the Second War. He died on active service in the Middle East, aged 52, on 6 April 1942 and is buried in the Heliopolis War Cemetery, Egypt.

Another example of this medal features in the OMRS Miniature Branch Broadsheet, issue 45, 1996.

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£65