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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 547

Pair: 2nd Lieutenant, G. R. Berkeley, Royal Army Service Corps, late Ambulance Driver, British Red Cross

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. G. R. Berkeley.), the first with officially re-impressed naming, otherwise good very fine (2)

George Rowland Berkeley was born on 27 November 1873, third son of Major General Frederick George Berkeley and twin brother of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Esmé Berkeley. Educated at Haileybury College, he served in France from 8 September 1918, initially as an Ambulance Driver with the British Red Cross. Post-war, he took up a career in banking and lived at 43 Chester Square, with the vendor recounting tales of the din of the bells of St Michael's Church in George's flat and being 'summoned' for lunch once a year at his Club; sold with copied MIC.

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