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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 173

(x) Six: Company Quarter-Master-Sergeant D. Daykin, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, who died in Tunisia on 7 November 1943

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Regular Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (4606406 D. Daykin. D.W.R.), very fine and better (6)

David Daykin was born in 1902 and served with the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment. The son of Edward Jackson Daykin, and husband of Maria Daykin of Hayes, Middlesex, he died on 7 November 1943, aged 41 and is buried in the Medjez-al-Bab War Cemetery, Tunisia. His loss was heavily mourned, as per the inscription on his headstone:

'Loved and Longed for always by his wife and children Margaret, David, Sylvia, Baby Peter and Ma.'


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