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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 260

Pair: Captain J. L. P. Hamer, Liverpool Regiment, Cheshire Regiment, Essex Regiment and British West Indies Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. L. P. Hamer.), good very fine (2)

John Lawton Parry Hamer was educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry on 19 August 1905, being promoted Lieutenant in May 1909, he married Clara Alice Frances Slack in 1911. In the 1911 Census he is recorded as a landed proprietor. During the Great War he served variously with the Liverpool, Cheshire, Essex and British West Indies Regiments first entering the Egyptian theatre in March 1916. His two brothers served during the Great War, with his brother Lieutenant H. J. T. Hamer being killed at the Battle of Tanga.

Hamer owned Glanyrafon Hall, Llanyblodwel, Salop and died on 16 February 1939.

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