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

№ 1204

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£880

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain F. Ward, Scots Guards

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, bronze star on ribbon, mounted for wear, fine and better (4) £700-900

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

M.I.D.
London Gazette 4 January 1917.

Croix de Guerre
London Gazette 14 July 1917.

Notes with the lot indicate that Captain Francis Ward, 1st Battalion Scots Guards was wounded in action in an artillery bombardment at Hooge on 30 March 1916.

Note: Other men with this name, initial and rank appear in the 1918 Army List.