Lot Archive

Lot

№ 450

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29 July 1992

Hammer Price:
£500

A Great War M.M. group of four to Sergeant V. Gare, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, who was later killed in action

MILITARY MEDAL, G.V.R. (1549 Sjt. Oxf. Yeo.); 1914 STAR (Cpl. Oxf. Yeo.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Sjt.) nearly extremely fine and scarce (4)

M.M., London Gazette, 11th October, 1916.

Sergeant Gare was killed in action on 24th May, 1917, at the age of 28. His brother was also killed during the war whilst serving with the 28th London Regiment. (See lot 553)