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Sgt Walter Tuppen DCM
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Ockley, Surrey
Walter Tuppen was a reservist, called back into the Army at the start of WWI. He received the DCM for what he termed 'a little private effort' at Aubers Ridge in May 1915, where as a signaller he kept communications open by torch and semaphore flags despite drawing enemy fire. He received the Mons Star and bar for having seen front line action from the beginning of the war and was a proud member of the Old Contemptibles after the war. Walter was invalided home in November 1916 suffering from neurasthenia, the reason given on the label tied to his coat as being due to '2 years in France'.

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