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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 1077

(†) A pair of Boxing Medals awarded to Lieutenant R. W. Diggens, Royal Engineers

Army Championship Boxing 1935 Officers Heavy Weight, 'Lieut. R. W. Diggens R.E., March 8th', Runner Up; Army Championship Boxing 1937 Officers Heavy Weight, Runner Up, 5cm, bronzed metal, good very fine (2)

R. W. Diggens served with the 56th (1st London) Divisional Engineers. He was promoted Lieutenant on 29 June 1935, Captain on 5 October 1938 and Major on 26 August 1939. A talented boxer, he twice made it to the final of the Heavyweight Territorial Army Boxing Championship staged at the Albert Hall, London, and twice lost to A. R. V. Luke of the 68th Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery. Luke won by a points decision on both occasions; sold with copied research.

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