Auction: 8016 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 190
Six: Lieutenant H.V. Shelton, Essex Regiment, later Pioneer Corps British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut H.V. Shelton.); Territorial Force War Medal (2. Lieut. H.V. Shelton. Essex. R.); 1939-1945 Star; Defence and War Medals, light contact marks overall, therefore generally very fine (6) Estimate £ 180-220 Lieutenant Herbert Vincent Shelton, commissioned Second Lieutenant, 5th (Territorial) Battalion, Essex Regiment, 24.12.1915; served during the Great War with the Regiment on the Western Front from 1916; Lieutenant 1.7.1917; retired 1919; re-joined 3.12.1939 as Lieutenant, Pioneer Corps; discharged 1945. Approximated 156 Territorial Force War Medals awarded to the Regiment, of these were 25 were to Officers.
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