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Auction: 25111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 874

An unusual double issue Efficiency Medal pair awarded to Corporal R. E. Lowthorpe, Sherwood Foresters, a long-served member of The Green Howards, with whom he was wounded in Normandy on 19 July 1944

Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., Territorial (4391510. Cpl. R. E. Lowthorpe. Foresters.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., Territorial (4391510. Cpl. R E Lowthorpe. Foresters.), good very fine and a rare pair, with envelope of issue (2)

Robert Edward Lowthorpe was born on 24 August 1921 at Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire and was a farm labourer at Walkergate by 1939, being a member of the 5th Battalion, The Green Howards. He sometime transferred to the 7th Battalion and would have landed on D-Day at around 0800hrs at Ver-Sur-Mer, being assisted by the tanks of the 4/7th Dragoon Guards and 86th Field Artillery.
Lowthorpe was wounded in action on 19 July 1944, whilst the unit were around Orbois and the cross-roads at Le Lion Vert. He died in 'God's Own County' in May 2004.

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