Auction Catalogue

27 June 2007

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 858

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27 June 2007

Hammer Price:
£2,000

A Great War M.M. group of six awarded to J. L. de Keersmaeker, a Belgian National, imprisoned by the Germans for Espionage, 1916-18

Military Medal, G.V.R., unnamed as awarded to foreign nationals; British War Medal 1914-20, M.I.D. oak leaf (J. L. de Keersmaeker); Belgium, Victory Medal 1914-18, unnamed; Croix de Guerre, ‘A’ cypher; Civic Medal 1914-18, 1st Class, with swords, gilt, with clasp, 1914-1918; together with a British War Medal 1914-20 (L. M. Oeters) good very fine and better (6) £800-1000

Sold with British M.I.D. Certificate, named to ‘Monsieur J. L. de Keersmaeker. Tamise’, mentioned in Field Marshal Haig’s despatches of 8 November 1918; a letter to De Keersmaeker from the British Military Commission, War Office, London, dated 18 September 1919, confirming the award of the British War Medal ‘for valuable services rendered to the British Army during the Great War 1914-1918’; and a slip from British Military Intelligence Commission, 40 Rue Souveraine, Brussels, dated 10.4.1919, partly handwritten, partly printed, which reads, ‘Le porteur M. Louis De Keersmaeker est attaché au Service de Renseignements du Grand Quartier Général des Armées britanniques. Il est emprisonné du 17 Novembre 1916 au 17 Novembre 1918 [signed] I. A. Kirkpatrick. Captain for Major G.S.’