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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 85

Three: Captain D. McCorquodale, Devonshire Home Guard, Late Royal Field Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D. Mc.Corquodale.); Defence Medal, nearly very fine, with Army Council enclosure and named card box of issue for the Defence Medal, addressed to 'Capt. D. McCorquodale, "The Tors", Nr. Newton Abbot, Devon'; the recipient's Royal Artillery and Devonshire Regiment cap badges; and cloth rank insignia

Three: Petty Officer Mechanic H.E.G. Cox, Devonshire Home Guard, Late Royal Naval Air Service
British War and Victory Medals (F.21648 H.E.G. Cox. P.O.M. R.N.A.S.); Defence Medal, VM officially renamed, good very fine, with two named card boxes of issue and Army Council enclosure for the Defence Medal, the latter box addressed 'Mr. H.E.G. Cox, 11 Dawlish St, Teignmouth, Devon'

One: Corporal E.B. Hoyle, Devonshire Home Guard
Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine, with the recipient's Devonshire Regiment shooting medal, bronze, the reverse engraved '16th Bn. Devon H.G. Bedford Cup. Cpl. E.B. Hoyle.'

One: Sergeant D.S. Shier, Devonshire Home Guard
Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine, with the recipient's named Home Guard Service Certificate

Home Guard Service Certificate (Arthur Valentine Loveys), together with a Devonshire Home Guard Christmas Card (lot)

Captain Donald McCorquodale, Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, 30.7.1915; served during the Great War on the Western Front from January 1916; promoted Captain, 12.4.1944, and served with the 17th (Dockyard) Battalion, Devonshire Home Guard.

Petty Officer Mechanic Herbert Ernest George Cox, born Newton Abbott, Devon, May 1877; enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service, 5.10.1916; subsequently served with the 9th (Teignmouth) Battalion, Devonshire Home Guard.

Sergeant Donald Sidney Shier, of Mannamead, Plymouth, served with the Devonshire Home Guard for 4 years and 58 days.

Private Arthur Valentine Loveys served in the 6th (Chumleigh) Battalion, Devonshire Home Guard

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