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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 214

Pair: Major J. A. Stephens, Royal Artillery

British War Medal 1914-20 (Major J. A. Stephens); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1917, some contact wear, overall very fine (2)

John August Stephens was born on 12 May 1870 and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant with the 1st Dorsetshire (Southern Division) Royal Artillery on 12 February 1896. This unit was later renamed the 1st Dorsetshire, Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) and Stephens was transferred from that battery to the Dorset battery, 2nd Wessex Brigade, as a Captain on 1 April 1908.

Still serving with this unit on the outbreak of the Great War he remained manning shore defences throughout the conflict, being advanced Major on 29 August 1917. That same year he received the Territorial Decoration on 3 September 1917 (London Gazette 11 September 1917, refers). Stephens applied for his sole entitlement British War Medal whilst living at Hayden Lodge, Holywell, Dorchester.

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