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

№ 905

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£520

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal F. Whitehouse, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (R-14048 Pte., 8/K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (14048 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (R-14048 Cpl., K.R. Rif. C.) some edge bruising, very fine (4) £350-400

M.M. London Gazette 23 August 1916.

Private Whitehouse was awarded the Military Medal for his work in capturing a crater - the result of a mine under British held trenches, that was exploded by the Germans on 1 July 1916.