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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 162

Three: Major W.E.M. Purvis, 16th Cavalry, Late West Yorkshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (Major E.W.M. Purvis, 16/Cavalry.); British War and Victory Medals (Major E.W.M. Purvis), extremely fine (3) Estimate £ 200-250 Major Eyre Walter Molyneux Purvis, born 1871; entered Second Lieutenant West Yorkshire Regiment, 1891; Lieutenant 1893; appointed to Indian Army Lieutenant 16th Cavalry, 1895; attached Squadron Officer 9th Lancers, 1897; advanced Major 16th Cavalry, 1909; Squadron Commander 1911; accidentally shot and killed, 4.3.1915, buried Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.

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£300