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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 78

Four: Captain O.A. Speed, Cheshire Home Guard, Late Imperial Yeomanry and Army Service Corps
Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between State and date clasps (25385 Tpr: O.A. Speed. 21st. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. O.A. Speed.), attempts to obliterate '2' on both; Defence Medal (Capt O.A. Speed Birkenhead Home Guard), impressed 'Boots' style, edge bruise to first, nearly very fine (4)

Captain Orry Augustine Speed, born Warrington, Lancashire, 1880; served during the Boer War with the 21st (Cheshire) Company, 2nd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, 10.3.1901 - 27.8.1902; discharged, 3.9.1902; re-enlisted for service in the Great War and served with the Army Service Corps on the Western Front from 10.2.1917; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Army Service Corps, 1.12.1917; promoted Lieutenant, 1.6.1919; subsequently served with the 4th (Birkenhead) Battalion, Cheshire Home Guard.

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