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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 26

Dobell family-related items of 51st Highland Division interest, various dates, 1925-1944

A half-tone photograph of Captain and Mrs D.N. Wimberley taken after their wedding on 29th April 1925, together with Captain Angus Collier MC, groomsman, and Miss Judith and Miss Frances Dobell, bridesmaids, and a 51st Highland Division booklet - the text of a speech by Major General Douglas Wimberley, lately commanding 51st Highland Division, printed in 'The Inverness Courier', 18th February 1944.

Captain Douglas Wimberley MC, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, married Myrtle Campbell, one of Dobell's two step-daughters; he later became an inspiring commander of 51st Highland Division 1941-43 and was made CB and DSO.

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