Family Group. WWI medals to Pioneer Keey RE and Sergeant Keey RASC

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Family Group. A WWI group of four to Sergeant G.A. Keey, Royal Army Service Corps
1914-15 Star (T-3005 Sjt. G.A. Keey, A.S.C.), British War and Victory Medals (3005 Sjt. G.A. Keey, A.S.C.), Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (T4-244012 Sjt G.A. Keey. R.A.S.C.), extremely fine with part of official card packaging, original Territorial Force Embodiment slip dated 4 August 1918 plus copied service papers.

British War and Victory Medals (237189 Pnr. C.E. Keey. R.E.), extremely fine, together with a small black and white portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform, framed plus a larger WWI group photograph (Keey, middle row second from the right)

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3005 Sergeant George Augustus Keey was born in Hockley, Birmingham 1890, he served on the Western Front from 5 March 1915, his service papers record that on 3 June 1915 he was severely reprimanded for 'Being absent without leave 7.40pm to 8.30pm', he was also reprimanded on 21 December 1918. Keey was discharged from service on 25 April 1923.

237189 Pioneer Clifford Edgar Keey served during WWI with the Royal Engineers. After the war, he trained with Messrs. Carter & Co of Birmingham and qualified as A.C.A. in 1923. in 1927 he joined the Birmingham Aluminium Casting (1903) Co. Ltd as Commercial Manager and Accountant. Keey died in 1955, an original copy of The Birmirror Birmid Sports and Social Review dated July 1955 which features an obituary for Keey is included in the lot.