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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 485

Three: Private C. G. Davison, 1/5th Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, who was killed in action North-West Europe on 7 December 1944

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure 'Pte. C. G. Davison', in card box of issue addressed to ‘Mrs A. E. Davison, 153 Mays Lane, High Barnet, Herts’, together with framed Buckingham Palace Memorial scroll in the name 'Private C. G. Davison Queen's Royal Regiment', good very fine (3)

Charles George Davison was a native of High Barnet in 1922. During the Second World War he originally enlisted into the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment. He served with the 1/5th Battalion, The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey) in North-West Europe and was killed in action on 7 December 1944, aged just 22. At this time the unit were in the deep salient south of Roermond, his Battalion HQ in the village of Wehr.

The son of Josiah and Annie Elizabeth Davison, of High Barnet, Hertfordshire, Davison is buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery; sold together with a small group photograph of three soldiers, thought to include Davison, annotated on the reverse ‘Ghent, Belgium 1944’.

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Starting price
£130