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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 463

Four: 2nd Lieutenant C. Blount, Dorsetshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. C. Blount.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Special Constabulary L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Segt. Cecil Blount), very fine (4) together with the British Red Cross Society Medal awarded to Miss H. Blount, British Red Cross Society, (17318 H. Blount) engraved, with assorted badges etc. (Lot)

Cecil Blount was born at Clapham, South London on 18 April 1892 and was educated at St. Peter's College, Westminster. He worked as a bank clerk and originally enlisted into the 3/14th Battalion London Regiment on 29 March 1915, he transferred to the 2/14th on 13 May 1915 before transferring to the Inns of Court O.T.C. (No.5821) on 25 August 1915. Blount was commissioned into the 3/4th Dorset Regiment London Gazette 15 December 1915 and entered the war in Mesopotamia from 31 May 1916. He suffered heatstroke on 9 July 1916 in heat of 107 degrees losing consciousness for about an hour, he suffered from further illnesses and his medical case sheet was of the opinion that he would have been unfit for duty for two months. Blount was eventually discharged in 1919 and returned to the banking sector. He worked as the manager of the National Provincial Bank at Cheltenham and additionally served as a Special Constable serving with Gloucestershire Special Constabulary throughout the Second World War before resigning in December 1945. In addition, he served as the commanding officer of the Cheltenham Sea Cadet unit. His bank relocated him to Folkestone to become the bank manager there, however he returned to Cheltenham and resumed his service with the Sea Cadet Corps and resigned from them in July 1957. He died on 18 January 1964.

Hilda Blount was born on 29 October 1891 and served with the B.R.C.S. from 1 July 1916 until May 1919, working as a Shorthand typist clerk at the Mont Dore Military Hospital, Bournemouth. She died at Cheltenham on 3 March 1866.



Sold together with the following:

i)
Photograph of him in uniform wearing Dorsetshire regiment uniform in a regimental frame.

ii)
Minor buttons, rank insignia etc.

iii)
Minor assorted photographs.

iv)
Medical Case Sheet from 1916.

v)
Letter from Gloucestershire Special Constabulary dated 10 December 1945 wishing him the best of luck in his new role.

vi)
Newspaper cutting noting his departure from Cheltenham in 1945.

vii)
Minor correspondence and paperwork.

viii)
Letter from the Sea Cadet Corps dated 5 July 1957 noting his resignation.

ix)
Certificate to Miss Hilda Blount for recognition of valuable services during the War.

x)
St. John Ambulance Association certificate for Instruction, dated June 1939.

xi)
Photograph of Hilda Blount in Red Cross uniform.

Please see Lot 491 for the medals awarded to his son.

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Estimate

Starting price
£110