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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 872

Four: Private W. Morford, 5th Lancers

1914-15 Star (L-6021. Pte. W. Morford. 5th. Lrs.); British War and Victory Medals (L-6021 Pte. W. Morford. 5-Lrs.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., with three additional Award Bars (Walter Morford), mounted on original ribands in swing style, with the recipient's separate Defence Medal 1939-45, as well as his Beaconsfield Rifle Club and South Buckinghamshire Civilian Rifle League enamel lapel badges and Buckinghamshire County Rifle Association cloth badge, good very fine (4)

Walter Morford was born at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire on 21 April 1896, the son of a local grocer. Prior to the Great War he served a grocery apprenticeship in London at Waitrose - at that time a chain comprising a mere three small shops. He attested for the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, arriving in France on 21 September 1915. Morford died on 6 October 1960; sold with copied research and MIC.

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£210

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£50