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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 379

A Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Major R. A. Beckett, 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons)

Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War Medal 1914-20, erased naming; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. R. A. Beckett); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt. R. A. Beckett 2-Co. of Lond. Y.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (106 Sjt: R. A. Beckett. 2/C. of Lond: Yeo.), this last mounted upon pin as worn, first with replacement suspension bar, very fine (6)

M.C. London Gazette 4 June 1917.

Ralph Arthur Beckett was born on 29 July 1884 and baptised in Tower Hamlets. Having taken work as a Shipping Clerk in Stepney, Beckett joined the Yeomanry and was awarded his T.F.E.M. in January 1912. Serving in France from 15 April 1916, he was commissioned and finished the war with a brace of 'mentions' (London Gazettes 4 January 1917 & 20 December 1918, refer) to go with a well-earned Military Cross, having also served on Staff attachment to the Royal Artillery. Applying for his awards in April 1920, they were sent to him at Langley Drive, Wanstead, in December 1923. Returning for Home Service during the Second World War, Beckett died at the London Hospital, Stepney on 23 December 1954; sold together with a silver National Territorial Championships prize medal, 1911, the reverse engraved 'R. A. Beckett. 2nd Prize. Wrestling on Horseback' a silver Masonic 1914-1918 medal, cap badge and copied research.

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