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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 450

Pair: Second Lieutenant R.C. Speedy, Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry) British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. R.C. Speedy), extremely fine, mounted in a glazed frame with a photograph of the recipient, and surmounted by the recipient´s cap badge, together with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque ´Ralph Coggin Speedy´, mounted on a wooden frame with collar badges of the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars, and Machine Gun Corps; Parchment Scroll ´2/Lieut. Ralph Coggin Speedy Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry); and Buckingham Palace Enclosure, these last two items both mounted in glazed frames (2) Estimate £ 350-380 Second Lieutenant Ralph Coggin Speedy, born Whitby, Yorkshire, 1886; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 16th Squadron, Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry), 7.3.1917; Squadron renumbered 19th Squadron, 9.11.1917; served in Egypt and Palestine from December 1917; died 4.12.1918, and is buried in Whitby Cemetery.

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