Three: Second Lieutenant F. Deves, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, late Honourable Artillery Company, 1914 Star (Pte. H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.), with boxes of issue and three original photographs of Deves in Warwicks uniform

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Three: Second Lieutenant F. Deves, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, late Honourable Artillery Company, 1914 Star (Pte. H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.), with boxes of issue and three original photographs of Deves in Warwicks uniform

Three: Private S. P. Holden, 1/5th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment, 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with boxes of issue

Pair: Lieutenant E. L. Hardy, Royal Engineers, British War and Victory Medal, all groups nearly extremely fine and better (8)

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INDENTSecond Lieutenant Francis Deves 4th. Bn. was attached 2nd. Bn., killed in action France, 11 April 1917, during the Battle of Arras; he was buried in Brown's Copse Cemetery, Roeux

Private (1037) Stanley Phillip Holden, 'O' Coy. 1/5th. Bn. (London Rifle Brigade), was killed in action on the first day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial as he has no known grave. The 'London Rifle Brigade' formed part of the initial assault on a 900 yard front in the Gommecourt Park area - they lost 19 out of 23 Officers and 535 out of 803 other ranks

Lieutenant Edgar Leslie Hardy died of wounds, France, 7 October 1918, and is buried in Quarry Cemetery, Marquion

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