Auction Catalogue

7 March 2007

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 984

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7 March 2007

Hammer Price:
£440

A Great War ‘Italian Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private A. A. Carey, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and Army Service Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (33878 Pte., 1/Bucks. Bn. O. & B. L.I.) correction to naming; 1914-15 Star (M2-077417 Pte., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M2-077417 Pte., A.S.C.) very fine (4) £350-400

M.M. London Gazette 24 January 1919. ‘33878 Pte. Carey, A. A., 1st (Bucks.) Bn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (T.F.) (Doncaster) (Italy)’.

Private Arthur A. Carey, A.S.C. entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 1 May 1915. He later won the Military Medal for bravery in Italy.