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Auction: 26002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 126

Three: Major H. Parkhouse, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, late Devonshire Regiment who was awarded an O.B.E. for the Military Operations of the Waziristan Force

British War and Victory Medals (1910 W.O.CL.2. H. Parkhouse. Devon. R.); Territorial Force War Medal (1910 Pte. H. Parkhouse. Devon. R.), good very fine (3)

[O.B.E.] London Gazette 10 June 1921.

For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations of the Waziristan Force.

Horace Parkhouse was born on 19 July 1891 and per the 1911 census was working as an insurance clerk residing at 165 Monks Road, Heavitree, Exeter. He enlisted into the Devonshire Regiment at Exeter on 8 April 1914. He served in India from 9 October 1914 through 22 February 1916 and then was appointed to a Commission on 20 November 1918. In the 1939 Register, Parkhouse was married and living in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and working as an insurance manager. He died at Hertfordshire in 1977.

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Estimate
£180 to £220

Starting price
£140