The Great War Western Front Officer’s casualty pair and Great War Officer’s North Russia pair to the Lockyer brothers. Second Lieutenant F.C. Lockyer saw service on the Western Front from 14th May 1916 and having been commissioned into the 8th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment was killed in action on 12th February 1917. Having no known grave he is now remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. His younger brother, Second Lieutenant E.V. Lockyer, Royal Air Force saw service from 30th August 1918 and would see service in North Russia.
Pair: British War Medal and Victory Medal; (2.LIEUT. F.C. LOCKYER.)
Condition: edge-knock to Victory Medal at 7 o’clock, Good Very Fine
Felix Courtenay Lockyer was born in 1896 and saw service initially as a Private (No. 1105) with the 7th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment on the Western Front from 14th May 1916 and would later be commissioned into the 8th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment before being killed in action on 12th February 1917. Having no known grave he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and is noted as the son of Ernest Alfred and Lilian Jane Lockyer of The Highlands, Chelston, Torquay.
Pair: British War Medal and Victory Medal; (2.LIEUT. E.V. LOCKYER. R.A.F.)
Condition: evidence of previous Verdigris to the Victory Medal, otherwise Good Very Fine
Eric Vernon Lockyer was born on 18th December 1899 and initially joined the 34th Training Reserve Battalion as a Private, before joining the Royal Air Force being appointed a Temporary Second Lieutenant on 30th August 1918. He would subsequently see service in Russia and would return to the UK on 16th July 1919 when he was admitted to 3rd London General Hospital at Wandsworth.
Later transferred to the unemployed list on 11th November 1919.
