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

№ 1489

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£400

A scarce Great War ‘Italy’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private V. C. T. White, 1/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on 20 October 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (200986 Pte., 1/4 R. Berks. R.); British War and Victory Medals (200986 Pte., R. Berks. R.); together with a bronze religous medal, nearly extremely fine (4) £400-450

M.M. London Gazette 21 October 1918.

Victor Charles Thomas White was born at Uffington, Berkshire and enlisted at Reading. He was killed in action in Italy on 20 October 1918, just one day before the award of his Military Medal was announced in the London Gazette.