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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 171

(x) Five: Lieutenant & Quartermaster H. W. Wentworth, Pioneer Corps, late Army Physical Training Corps and King's Royal Rifle Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Regular Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (6842763 W.O. Cl.1. H. W. Wentworth. A.P.T.C.), very fine (5)

Herbert William Wentworth was born on 5 July 1907 at Deptford, London. He served at the King's Royal Rifles Corps Depot from 26 August 1924, transferring to the 2nd Battalion on 11 July 1929. Appointed to the Army Physical Training Staff from 6 January 1931, he served with Middle East Forces (Egypt and Palestine) from 18 October 1940, followed by a 6-month station on Cyprus in 1943. Promoted Warrant Officer 1st Class in March 1943, and Lieutenant & Quartermaster in the Pioneer Corps on 21 November 1944, Wentworth was posted to Headquarters and released from service on 4 January 1946. He died at Winchester in 1952.

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