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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 478

An unusual campaign group of six awarded to Battery Sergeant-Major E. A. G. Makepeace, Royal Artillery, late Platoon Sergeant-Major, South Wales Borderers, whose extensive service saw him earn the short-lived rank of Warrant Officer Class III before his death in service as the result of an accident in 1944

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Iraq, Palestine (344025 A-Cpl. E. A. G. Makepeace. R.E.), the second loose on the riband; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., (1855128 W.O. Cl. III. E. A. G. Makepeace.), good very fine overall (6)

Note the recipient confirmed entitled to both clasps for the General Service Medal, an unusual combination and the rank of Warrant Officer Class III a scarce one existing only between 1938-1940.

Ernest Albert George Makepeace was born at Newport, South Wales around 1900, the son of Thomas and Mary Makepeace. Joining the Royal Signals, he was too late to see any service in the Great War but did serve in Iraq during the Great Revolt there in 1920. He transferred to the South Wales Borderers and served with them in Palestine in the rank of Platoon Sergeant Major.

Transferring again upon the outbreak of the Second World War Makepeace joined the Royal Artillery as Battery Sergeant-Major. He was still serving in this rank in 1944 as part of a Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery in North Yorkshire. There Makepeace died as a result of an accident on 17 June 1944, taken home to Cardiff he was buried there at Cardiff (Cathays) Cemetery. His medals were sent to his wife at 53 Glenroy Strett, Roath. Cardiff; sold together with copied research.

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