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№ 91

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9 May 2018

Hammer Price:
£750

A scarce Great War ‘French theatre’ M.M. group of five awarded to Lance-Corporal, later Lieutenant, A. Turner, Leicestershire Yeomany

Military Medal, G.V.R. (1622 Pte. A. Turner. 1/1 Leic: Yeo:) surname partially officially corrected; 1914 Star (1622 L. Cpl. A. Turner. Leic: Yeo:); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. Turner.); Defence Medal, edge bruising, therefore generally nearly very fine or better (5) £400-500

M.M. London Gazette 22 January 1917.

Aubry Turner served during the Great War with the 1/1st Leicestershire Yeomanry in the French theatre of war from 2 November 1914. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, 26 June 1917, and advanced to Lieutenant.