Auction Catalogue

2 December 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 634

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2 December 2009

Hammer Price:
£800

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Serjeant Thomas L. Brown, 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the 1st Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916

Military Medal, G.V.R. (6930 Sjt., 1/Hants. R.); British War and Victory Medals (8930 Sjt., Hamps. R.) mounted court style for wear, very fine (3) £400-450

M.M. London Gazette 19 February 1917. ‘.... for bravery in the Field to the under-mentioned Non-commissioned Officers and Men, since deceased, who have been killed in action or died of wounds or disease subsequent to the date of the award ....’

Lance-Corporal Thomas L. Brown, 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 23 August 1914. The Hampshire Regimental Journal of February 1915 records that as a Sergeant he had sprained his left elbow at Boulogne on 7 January 1915. The Journal of June 1915 records Sergeant Brown as being recommended for distinguished service within the period, 25 April-4 May 1915, for ‘gallant command of section’. Sergeant Brown was killed in action on 1 July 1916, the first day of the battle of the Somme. He was buried in the Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France. With copied research including modern photo of headstone.