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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 362

Five: Lieutenant T. Whitfield, West Yorkshire Regiment, later Section Leader, Special Constabulary

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. T. Whitfield); Defence Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1953; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., with two additional service bars, Long Service 1947, Long Service 1955 (Sect Ldr Titus Whitfield), mounted as worn, very fine, together with a Bradford and District Master Plumbers Association Past President Badge, the reverse engraved 'T. Whitfield Esq. President 1952-53', silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks to reverse (6)

Titus Whitfield was born on 7 May 1895 at Shipley and during the Great War was commissioned from the ranks of the West Riding Regiment, serving in France with the West Yorkshire Regiment in 1917. His Medals were issued to him in Shipley in 1921 and by 1939 he was listed as a Master Plumber & Electrician (Heavy Worker). Confirmed on the 1953 Coronation Medal roll as an Inspector, he died at 12 Castle Street, Shipley on 12 January 1966; sold together with copied research.

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£130

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£60