Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 March 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 640

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£100

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (36555 Q.M. Sjt. H. J. Stark, No.40 F.A. R.A.M.C.) minor contact marks, very fine £80-100

M.S.M. London Gazette 16 August 1917. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in the Field during the present war’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919 (Mesopotamia).

40 Field Ambulance served in Gallipoli and then in Mesopotamia where it participated in the attempted relief of Kut and entered Baghdad in March 1917. Sold with copied research.