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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 46

A Most Interesting and Unusual B.E.M. to Sergeant H. Laming, Duke of Wellington´s Regiment, Four Times Mayor of Mossley British Empire Medal, Military Division, G.VI.R. (4601438 Sgt. H. Laming), minor edge bruise, otherwise extremely fine Estimate £ 100-120 B.E.M. London Gazette 2.1.1939 No.4601438 Sergeant Harry Laming, 7th Battalion, The Duke of Wellington´s Regiment (West Riding), Territorial Army. 4601438 Sergeant Harry Laming, B.E.M., joined the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Duke of Wellington´s Regiment as a boy in 1901 and served continuously with that Battalion, later renamed the 7th Battalion, until 1941, the majority of those years as the Officers´ Mess Sergeant. He was also active in the civic life of his home town, as an Alderman and four times Mayor of Mossley, Lancashire, as well as a Justice of the Peace. One of his proudest days was a ´middle Sunday´ in camp when he spent the morning in shirt sleeves preparing the Officers´ Mess for lunch, and then emerged resplendent in top hat and Mayoral chain to be welcomed by his commanding officer as the chief guest at that same lunch (the recipient´s Obituary in The Iron Duke journal refers). Sergeant Laming mobilized with his Battalion in 1939, serving with the Battalion in Iceland until being invalided home in 1941. He died 18.3.1947.

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