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Auction: 25112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 479

Four: Company Sergeant-Major T. Magness, King's Shropshire Light Infantry

British War and Victory Medals (9105 W.O. Cl. 2. T. Magness. Shrops. L.I.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (4025733 W.O. Cl. II. T. Magness. K.S.L.I.), mounted as worn, polished, contact wear, very fine (4)

Thomas Magness was born at Camberwell, London and attested on 8 February 1909, serving with the 1st Battalion and 4th Battalions during the Great War. The Regimental Journal of June 1927 states:

'As regards changes in the Company: C.S.M. Magness left us just before we came to Cologne, after four years as C.S.M. of "Y" Company, to join the permanent [SIC] staff of the 4th Battalion, and C.S.M. Silver war appointed in his place.'

Magness was discharged at Shrewsbury on 7 February 1930 and died in the Summer of 1961; sold together with copied research.

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