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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 198

(x) Three: Captain W. H. Burleigh, Army Service Corps, who additionally served as a Royal Air Force Airship Pilot in 1918

1914 Star (2. Lieut. W. H. Burleigh. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. W. H. Burleigh.), very fine (3)

Walter Henry Burleigh was born on 6 February 1894 at St. Pancras, London. Educated at King Edward's High School, Birmingham, he studied Machine Drawing at London University, graduating on 11 February 1911. After taking engineering courses at Edinburgh and Heriot Watt Universities, he became Assistant Manager of the London factory of Daimler & Co.

On 31 August 1914, Burleigh was granted a commission in the Mechanical Transport section of the Army Service Corps, with whom he landed in France on 6 October 1914. Invalided to England in February 1917, seven months later he was appointed to command the 83rd Auxiliary Company, Army Service Corps on the Italian Front, with the rank of Captain. In the final months of the war he volunteered for the Royal Flying Corps, becoming an Airship Pilot. He returned to Damiler & Co. after the war, and died in 1969. His medals were sent to 3 Ashbourne Mansions, London NW11. Several letters between himself and his brother Captain L. G. Burleigh are held by the Imperial War Museum (Documents.19652).

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