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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 223

Pair: Lieutenant C. E. Eves, Royal Marines

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. E. Eves. R.M.), nearly extremely fine (2)

Charles Ernest Eves was born on 1 February 1882 at Gorton, Lancashire, the son of John William Eves. A railway clerk by profession, Eves attested for the Royal Marines Medical Unit at Manchester on 13 November 1915 and was commissioned Temporary 2nd Lieutenant on 27 June 1917. Serving with the 2nd Marine Brigade in France, Eves was wounded by a gas shell on 5 October 1918 and invalided. He was later demobilised on 1 March 1919 and returned to employment with the railways, being appointed to the expenditure office.

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