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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 505

Pair: Corporal B. H. Coveney, 1st (Home Counties) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

British War and Victory Medals (900823 Cpl. B. H. Coveny R.A.), good very fine

Bernard Hastings Coveney was born at Brighton on 10 December 1894. Attesting on 21 September with the 1st (Home Counties) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force) as a Gunner he saw home service for much of the war. Promoted Bombardier on 26 May 1916 Coveney was posted to Mesopotamia on 4 October 1917. Promoted Corporal while there on 1 October 1918 he was stationed in India after the war with his records including a reference to a rejected application for the India General Service Medal 1908-35 with an Afghanistan 1919 clasp. Coveney was finally demobilised on 17 December 1919 and died in 1893; sold together with M.I.C., Birth, Marriage and death registries entries and service records.

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£30

Starting price
£10