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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 147

Pair: Lieutenant T. D. Kenion, Herefordshire Regiment attached 23rd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. T. D. Kenion.), good very fine (2)

Thomas Dawson Kenion was born at Rochdale in 1883 and was educated at Denstone College, Uttoxeter and Worcester College, Oxford. Kenion was an Assistant Master at Barnard Castle School by 1911 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Herefordshire Regiment in September 1915. Promoted Lieutenant in July 1917, he served in France with the 23rd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment from 21 May 1918. That Battalion were formed at Happisburgh, Norfolk in January 1917 and shared in the Battles at Messines, Bailleul, Kemmel Ridge, Scherpenberg, Selle and Valenciennes. It ended the Great War at Roubaix. Kenion returned to Barnard Castle and was appointed Lieutenant in the Junior Division OTC. He died on 16 October 1946 and left an estate of some £82,000, donating funds to the Boys Orphanage at Sunderland.

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