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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 152

Pair: Lieutenant L. Fairclough, Kent Cyclist Battalion

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. L. Fairclough), mounted as worn, very fine (2)

Lawrence Fairclough was born in Lewisham on 6 December 1891. Educated at Lancing College, he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. at 10 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn on 30 September 1915. The following January he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3/1st Kent Cyclist Battalion, based at Tonbridge (London Gazette, 1 February 1916, refers). Hospitalised with appendicitis on 30 October 1916, he was given three months' recuperative leave in England. Transferring to the Machine Gun Corps on 5 March 1917, he was posted to the Machine Gun Training Centre at Grantham; sold with copied service papers.

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