A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Lance Sergeant P. W. Turner, 17th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) (Territorial Force) who died of wounds on the Western Front on 30 June 1916

Military Medal, G.V.R. (2779 L. Sjt: P. W. Turner. 17/Lond: R. - T.F.); 1914-15 Star (2779, Pte. P. W. Turner, 17-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2779 Cpl. P. W. Turner. 17-Lond. R.); Memorial Plaque (Percy William Turner) with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope; Memorial Scroll, ‘L. Serjt. Percy William Turner London Regt.’ the surname amended to ‘Jackson’, in its OHMS scroll tube, addressed to, ‘Mr. W. Jackson’, slight edge bruise to M.M. otherwise good very fine or better (6) £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals.

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M.M. London Gazette 14 September 1916.

Percy William Jackson, alias Percy William Turner, was born in 1893 at Harston, Cambridgeshire, the son of William and Amy Ann Jackson. He attested for the Poplar and Stepney Rifles at Bow, London in October 1914 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 March 1915. He died of wounds on the Western Front on 30 June 1916 and was awarded the Military Medal, the latter being notified in an edition of the London Gazette carrying retrospective ‘non-immediate’ awards mostly for the period March to June 1916. He is buried in Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

Sold together with the Imperial War Graves Commission commemorative scroll for Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension, France in its tube, named to ‘Jackson (served as Turner)...’; the recipient’s card identity tag with string, named, ‘2779 Rfn. W. P. Turner. C.E. 17 London’; together with the recipient’s father’s Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes medal, metal, open book on cross with crossed swords suspension and letters RAOB, registered manufacturer EH, with buffalo horns top bar, in original box, engraved to the reverse, ‘G.C.K.P. W. Jackson. Companion. 1923.’