Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. awarded to Private Fred Lamb, Medical Unit Royal Marines, attached 63rd Royal Naval Division

Military Medal, G.V.R. (Deal-4159-S Pte. F. Lamb, M.U. R. Marines) good very fine £600-700

M.M. London Gazette 20 August 1919. Awarded, according to his records, for gallantry during the operations at Moeuvres on the 30th September 1918.

Fred Lamb was born on 6 July 1893, at Glossop, Derbyshire, and was 22 when he attested for the Royal Naval Division at Manchester on 23 November 1915. He served with the Middle East Force in Gallipoli, embarking from Mudros for Marseilles on 18 May 1916. Posted to the Front, he was admitted to the 3rd Canadian General Hospital at Boulogne on 12 November 1916, suffering from multiple gunshot or shrapnel wounds to the head, back and left arm, and was repatriated to England aboard the hospital ship Western Australia. Some two months later he returned to France where he first joined the Cyclists Battalion at Rouen, and then the 150th Royal Naval Field Ambulance. He shortly afterwards suffered the effects of a gas shell explosion but was soon back to duty. He was demobbed on 6 July 1919, and presented with the M.M. by the Mayor of Middleton, Lancashire, on 1 October 1919.