Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Gunner A. Cumes, Royal Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (89186 Gnr., Gds. D.A.C. R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (89186 Gnr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (89186 Gnr., R.A.) slight edge bruising, good very fine (4) £280-320

M.M. London Gazette 23 February 1918.

Alfred Cumes came from Starcross. As a Gunner in the Royal Field Artillery, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 May 1915. Sold with some copied research and an original Buckingham Palace letter from the King to Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the Guards Division, dated 22 March 1919, with envelope.