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

№ 1451

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£1,300

A scarce Great War Honorary D.C.M. group of five awarded to Maréchal-des-Logis A. G. Fockeday, 19e Escadron du Train

France, Croix de Guerre, with silver star and bronze palm on ribbon; Croix du Combatant; War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-18; G.B., Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R., unnamed as awarded to foreign nationals, the medals with photograph and documents in glass-fronted, wooded framed case, generally good very fine (5) £600-800

Sold with a photograph of the recipient in uniform; ‘Ordre General No.7’ from the Grand Quartier General des Armées du Nord et du Nord-Est, dated 1 March 1917, confirming the award of the British D.C.M. and French Croix de Guerre to Maréchal-des-Logis Alphonse Gustave Fockaday, of the 19e Escadron du Train; identification card with photograph confirming Fockaday as an interpreter; a telegram to Fockaday at 12 Rue Lauriston, Paris, from the Queen’s Private Secretary, thanking him for his kind message of sympathy. These documents in display case with medals; also with photocopies of the same.