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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 382

Three: Sergeant E. F. Tumber, 1/5th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), who was killed in action on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916

1914 Star (9830 Pte. E. F. Tumber. 5/Lond: R.); British War and Victory Medals (9830 Sjt. E. F. Tumber. 5-Lond. R.), good very fine (3)

Edward Frederick Tumber was born at Igalpuri, India in 1889 and by 1911 was living at 62 Killyon Road, Clapham with his widowed mother. A bank clerk by trade, Tumber served in France with the London Regiment from 4 November 1914. He was killed in action on 1 July 1916 and is commemorated upon the Thiepval Memorial.

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Sold for
£480

Starting price
£210