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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 582

The Wycombe Fire Guard B.E.M. group of four awarded to Private B. G. Dumbleton, 11th (1st South Down) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment

British Empire Medal, G.VI.R., Civil Division (Bertie G. Dumbleton), sold together with its box of issue; British War and Victory Medals (SD-52 Pte. B. G. Dumbleton. R. Suss. R.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R. (Inspr. Bertie G. Dumbleton), the second and third mounted as worn, good very fine (4)

B.E.M. London Gazette 9 January 1946.

Bertie George Dumbleton was born at Drayton, Middlesex on 6 October 1895, the son of George and Emma Dumbleton. He served during the Great War with the Royal Sussex Regiment and survived the war, returning to Britain where he married in 1919.

Living in Chepping Wycombe, Buckinghamshire in 1939 he appears upon the census that year as a member of the Special Constabulary. During the war however he served as the Fire Guard Officer for High Wycombe, being awarded the B.E.M. as a result. Sadly, Dumbleton did not live much longer, dying at Wycombe on 18 August 1947; sold together with copied research together with a presentation letter for the B.E.M., with its envelope and Special Constabulary Medal and photograph of the recipient.

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£150