Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1127

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29 June 2006

Hammer Price:
£270

A Great War M.M. group of three to Sapper J. Hardie, Royal Engineers and Gordon Highlanders

Military Medal, G.V.R. (249116 Sapr., 350/E.& M. Coy. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (11127 Pte., Gord. Highrs.) good very fine (3) £200-240

M.M. London Gazette 28 January 1918.

James Hardie was born in 1896. A motor mechanic by occupation he enlisted into the Army on 2 October 1914. He served in the infantry, October 1914-April 1917 and as a fitter, April 1917-May 1919, being transferred to the Army Reserve on 27 June 1919. Sold with original ‘Certificate of Employment during the War’ and ‘Certificate of Transfer to reserve on Demobilization’.