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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 669

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Five: Private A. Harvey, King's Royal Rifle Corps

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek (7913 Pte. A. Harvey, K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (7913 Pte. A. Harvey, K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (7913 Pte. A. Harvey, K.R. Rif. C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (7913 Pte. A. Harvey, K.R.R.C.), contact marks to the first, otherwise very fine

Three: Private A. V. Harvey, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who was taken Prisoner of War at Calais in May 1940

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in O.H.M.S. box of issue, addressed to 'Mr A. V. Harvey, Iver Village Post Office, Iver, Bucks', nearly extremely fine (8)

Alfred Harvey was born in 1871 at Aston, Warwickshire, the son of Herbert and Eleanor Jane Harvey. He enlisted into the K.R.R.C. on 16 February 1893 and served in France from 20 December 1914. Discharged on 4 January 1917, he returned to his wife, Madge Maggie Youell, and resided with her and his two children, Evelyn Jane and Alfred Vivian in London; sold with his metalled identity disc and K.R.R.C. cap badge.

Alfred Vivian Harvey was born on 28 April 1915 and was captured serving with the 2nd Battalion, K.R.R.C. at Calais. He was held as a Prisoner of War in Stalag VIIIb, at Lamsdorf, Silesia. Repatriated, he married Lilian May Palk at Wood Green in 1949, and died at the age of 78 at Taunton Dean, Somerset.


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