Auction Catalogue

13 December 2007

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 801

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13 December 2007

Hammer Price:
£1,300

A Great War ‘Al Valore Militare’ group of four awarded to Acting Serjeant F. Reynolds, East Yorkshire Regiment

1914-15 Star
(9697 L-Cpl., E. York. R.); British War and Victory Medals (9697 Sjt., E. York. R.); Italy, Al Valore Militare, bronze, with crowned ‘Z’ and ‘F.G’ below wreath, unnamed, good very fine (4) £500-600

Al Valore Militare London Gazette 31 August 1917.

Frederick Reynolds was born in Hawkhurst, Kent, in 1893. A Boot Boy by occupation, he enlisted into the East Yorkshire Regiment in Chatham on 29 September 1911. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, he served in India, November 1913-December 1914. In the Great War he served in France, 15 January-24 October 1915, seeing action at the 2nd Battle of Ypres and receiving a gunshot abrasion to the scalp. He then served in Salonika, 25 October 1915-1 February 1919, latterly with the Labour Corps. Serjeant Reynolds was discharged on 28 September 1923. Sold with original Discharge Certificate which lists the recipient’s medals and includes the ‘Italian Bronze Medal for Military Valour’; together with a quantity of copied service papers.