Lot Archive

Lot

№ 958

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7 March 2007

Hammer Price:
£1,200

A Great War M.C. group of three awarded to Captain E. E. Sargint, Royal Irish Fusiliers

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. A. (sic) Sargint) extremely fine (3) £1000-1200

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917. ‘Temp 2nd Lt., R. Ir. Fus.’

Edward Eaton Sargint was born in Tipperary and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers on 15 May 1915. Serving as a Captain in the 7th Battalion, he was killed in action in an attack on Langemarck on 16 August 1917, aged 21 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. He was the son of Edward Richmond and Amy Maud Sargint of 61 Fonthill Road, Hove, Brighton.