Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 261

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£65

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (10727 Pte. D. Jones, E. Surr. R.; 2661 Pte. J. G. Nicholson, W. York. R.), the first with card box of issue and remnants of registered envelope, generally good very fine (2) £40-60

Dudley Jones, who was born in Crowhurst, Sussex, was killed in action on the Somme during an attack on Morval on 25 September 1916, while serving in the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.