A British War Medal, awarded to L-897 SJT.C.E.KEAY. R.A., together with related items including...
A British War Medal, awarded to L-897 SJT.C.E.KEAY. R.A., together with related items including a plaque from an identity bracelet, cap badges, shoulder titles, photographs, a cigarette case, leather wallets, shrapnel etc and a pocket Bible with a bullet mark and the offending bullet, also five Francis Drake Felllowship bowling lapel badges for 1958,1959, 1960, 1962 and 1963 Footnote:- Sergeant Keay's life was saved by the above Bible, which was in his breast pocket and deflected a bullet that was fired at him. He was hospitalised from September 1917 until March 1918, and had over twenty pieces of shrapnel removed from his body