Queens Sudan Medal (10768. PTE. B.P. LAKE. R.A.M.C.); Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal GVR (10768 PTE. B.P. LAKE. R.A.M.C.); Khedive's Sudan Medal clasp Khartoum (10768 PTE B P LAKE RAMC)
Beaumont Proctor Lake was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1869 and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps at Aldershot on 9 July 1895, having previously served in the Militia Medical Staff Corps. He served with them overseas in Egypt and the Sudan from 13 July to 16 December 1898, and in Hong Kong from 17 December 1898 to 12 March 1902. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with gratuity per Army Order 99 of April 1914, and was finally discharged on 28 April 1920, his entire Great War service being at home.
According to the 1939 Register he was living at 52 Drury Lane, Solihill, Warwickshire and was a Retired Dispensing Chemist who had never married. It was claimed that he was born in 1860 but his attestation papers record a birth year of 1869
Sold with some research. Medals are in good condition unless otherwise indicated.
