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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 833

Four: Acting Sergeant A. H. V. Ingram, Kent Cyclist Battalion, late Royal West Kent Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (687 A. Sjt. A. H. V. Ingram. Kent Cyc. Bn.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (687 Pte. A. H. V. Ingram. Kent Cyc. Bn); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (265123 Sjt. A. H. V. Ingram. Kent Cyc. Bn.), mounted as worn, surname and unit corrected on the last, otherwise nearly extremely fine and a rare combination (4)

Arthur Herman Victor Ingram was born in July 1893 at Whitechapel, London before his family relocated to Tonbridge, Kent. By the outbreak of War, he was already a member of the 1st Battalion, Kent Cyclists, who had been raised in Tonbridge on 1 April 1908. This unusual unit utilised the Hudson Military bicycle, and recruited using the call to arms:

'Are you fond of Cycling?

If so, Why not cycle for the King?

Cycles provided, bad teeth no bar.'

The Kent cyclists initially served at home as a Territorial unit, before transferring to India, earning battle honours for 'N. W. Frontier, 1917' and 'Baluchistan, 1918.'

Ingram married twice and remained in Tonbridge. He died whilst living at 7 Brook Street on 29 January 1962; sold with copied MIC and research.

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Sold for
£450