Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Gunner E. R. Stitson, Devon Royal Garrison Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (138077 Gnr: E. R. Stitson. Devon: R.G.A. -T.F.); British War and Victory Medals (138077 Gnr. E. R. Stitson. R.A.) good very fine, extremely rare to unit (3) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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One of only 6 M.M.s awarded to the 187th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, Stitson’s awarded is possibly a unique award to the Devon Royal Garrison Artillery.

M.M. London Gazette 2 November 1917.

Ernest Richard Stitson was born in East Plymouth, Devon in 1882 and enlisted in the Devon Royal Garrison Artillery Territorial Force, being posted to 187th Siege Battery, which was raised at Plymouth on 13 July 1916. The unit formed a Gun Battery equipped with 6" Breach Loading Mark VII Guns and embarked for France in November 1916. Serving as a Gunner attached to 187 Siege Battery he was awarded the Military Medal. Following the cessation of hostilities he returned to his occupation as a Lamplighter in Plymouth and is recorded in the 1939 Register as a ‘Lamplighter during present blackout’. He died in Crawley, Sussex, on 9 April 1976, aged 93.

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