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A Great War 'East Africa' M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant H. H. Dommett, Royal Engi...
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A Great War ‘East Africa’ M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant H. H. Dommett, Royal Engineers Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, in case of issue; 1914-15 Star (70354 Cpl. H. H. Dommett. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut H. H. Dommett.) very fine (4) £700-£90 --- M.C. London Gazette, 27 July 1918. M.I.D. London Gazette, 20 January 1919. Harry Hams Dommett, a ship owner from Eppleworth House, Keynsham, Bristol, was born in Frome, Somerset, on 14 December 1886. He attested into the Royal Engineers on 26 December 1914 for service during the Great War. Advanced Corporal, he served on the Western Front from 18 January 1915 and was discharged to a commission on 7 December 1915 and served in East Africa attached to the Lindi Signalling Company and received a slight wound to his thigh during the action on Tandamuti Hill on 2 August 1917. Post-War, on 24 May 1927 at Bristol Crown Court, he was imprisoned for six months for unlawfully killing Eliza Edith Hollier. He appears in the 1939 Register as a Life Assurance Broker and an A.R.P. Warden living in Bournemouth, Hampshire, where he later died, aged 80, on 18 December 1966. Sold with copied research.
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A Great War ‘East Africa’ M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant H. H. Dommett, Royal Engineers Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, in case of issue; 1914-15 Star (70354 Cpl. H. H. Dommett. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut H. H. Dommett.) very fine (4) £700-£90 --- M.C. London Gazette, 27 July 1918. M.I.D. London Gazette, 20 January 1919. Harry Hams Dommett, a ship owner from Eppleworth House, Keynsham, Bristol, was born in Frome, Somerset, on 14 December 1886. He attested into the Royal Engineers on 26 December 1914 for service during the Great War. Advanced Corporal, he served on the Western Front from 18 January 1915 and was discharged to a commission on 7 December 1915 and served in East Africa attached to the Lindi Signalling Company and received a slight wound to his thigh during the action on Tandamuti Hill on 2 August 1917. Post-War, on 24 May 1927 at Bristol Crown Court, he was imprisoned for six months for unlawfully killing Eliza Edith Hollier. He appears in the 1939 Register as a Life Assurance Broker and an A.R.P. Warden living in Bournemouth, Hampshire, where he later died, aged 80, on 18 December 1966. Sold with copied research.
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