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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 1099

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945-49 (2 Lt. D. A. Coney. R.E.), extremely fine, rare to an officer

Derek Arthur Frederick Coney was born in Greenwich, London, on 16 April 1926 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 4 July 1948, serving with No. 2 Bomb Disposal Squadron, based in Richmond Park, London. He relinquished his commission in 1951 and was subsequently employed as a civil engineer in Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika. He died in Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 14 May 1979; sold together with a Royal Engineers cap badge and Bomb Disposal Squadron cloth sleeve badge.

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Sold for
£1,100

Starting price
£600