Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private J. Blunn, Hampshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (31737 Pte., 2/4 Hants. R.); British War and Victory Medals (31737 Pte., Hamps. R.) mounted court style for wear, very fine (3) £280-320

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of medals to the Hampshire Regiment.

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M.M. London Gazette 11 December 1918.

Private John Blunn, 2/4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment, from Birmingham, was awarded the Military Medal for his services in the Ardre Valley during the Second Battle of the Marne, July-August 1918. An extract from a regimental history states of the battle, ‘A considerable number of honours fell to the Battalion as a result of this fight, .... One might refer to ... Pte. Blunn, rather small in stature but big in grit; ...’

With copied m.i.c., gazette extracts and other research.