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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 896

Pair: Gunner J. G. Felton, Honourable Artillery Company

British War and Victory Medals (932 Gnr. J. G. Felton. H.A.C.-Art.-), in original named box of issue with original silk ribands, extremely fine (2)

James George Felton was born on 19 October 1889 at Lambeth, London, the son of shoe retailer Ellen Felton of 7 New Park Road, Brixton. A lawyer's clerk by profession, he served during the Great War as Gunner within the Artillery Section of the Honourable Artillery Company before returning home and marrying Grace E. Histed. He married secondly Miss Vera May Kearns at All Souls Church, Marylebone, on 28 April 1928. The marriage certificate interestingly notes the parents of both parties being involved in manufacturing, likely of footwear.

Sadly the marriage did not last, the President of the Divorce Court, Lord Merrivale, granting a decree nisi of nullity to Mrs. Vera May Felton on the grounds of non-consummation of the marriage. The case was undefended (The Uxbridge & West Drayton Gazette, 26 May 1933, refers). Returning to Croydon, Felton returned to work as a bank clerk and died in July 1972; sold with copied MIC and research.


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£35

Starting price
£20