Lot Archive

Lot

№ 143

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4 December 2002

Hammer Price:
£700

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant P. Simons, 8th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)

Military Medal, G.V.R. (370248 Sjt., 8/Lond. R.); 1914-15 Star (1661 Pte., 8-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1661 Sjt., 8-Lond. R.) with forwarding letters for the M.M. and trio to his widow, nearly extremely fine (4) £350-400

M.M. London Gazette 24 January 1919.

Percy Simons was born at New Southgate, London, and enlisted for the Post Office Rifles in London. He was killed in action in France on 14 October 1918, and is buried in Lievin Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France.