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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 105

A Great War Casualty Pair to Bristol F2b Fighter Pilot Second Lieutenant E.G. Humphrey, Royal Flying Corps, Who on Two Separate Occasions Received Gun Shot Wounds to His Chest, He Finally Succumbed to His Wounds, 29.3.1918 British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. E.G. Humphrey.), nearly extremely fine, with named transmittal slip for campaign medals, dated 23.6.1922 Estimate £ 200-240 Second Lieutenant Ernest Graham Humphrey, born 1896, a native of Northampton; educated at Bedford Modern School, where he was a Corporal in the O.T.C., and at the City and Guilds (Engineering) College; he was a Cadet in the University of London O.T.C.; employed as a Temporary Clerk at the Ministry of Munitions, July 1915; commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment and attached to the Royal Flying Corps as Second Lieutenant (Pilot); he was in action, 22.7.1917, when he received gun shot wounds to the chest and a fractured humorous; he recuperated in the New Zealand Stationary Hospital, Hazebrouck and No. 8 General Hospital, Rouen; returned to service in January 1918 and was flying with 48 (Fighter) Squadron (Bristol F2b´s), Bertangles, France; he received gun shot wounds, 28.3.1918, whilst flying low and defending the road near Amiens, he was admitted to No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital, but died of his wounds the following day; Humphrey is buried in Doullens Communal Cemetery, Somme, France.

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