Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Al Valore Militare group of four awarded to Private H. Everall, Royal Army Medical Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (65867 Pte., 132/F.A. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (65867 Pte., R.A.M.C.); Italy, Al Valore Militare, bronze, obverse with crowned ‘Z’ and ‘F.G.’ below wreath, reverse uninscribed, mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £1000-1200

M.M. London Gazette 14 January 1918.

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

Al Valore Militare London Gazette 26 May 1917.

Private Herbert Everall, 132nd Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. is several times mentioned in the unit’s war diary. He was one of four bearers of the unit who were named by the Officer Commanding on 3 July 1916, ‘For coolness under fire & good work all through the day’.

Everall’s Al Valore Militare was in part awarded for service in the attack at the Boar’s Head, Richbourg L’Avoue, on the night of 29/30 June 1916, where Serjeant N. V. Carter, 12th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, won a posthumous V.C.

With original award document for the Al Valore Militare, dated 23 November 1918; together with a letter signed by Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.P., Commanding VIII Army Corps who wrote, ‘I heartily congratulate you on the honour done you by His Majesty the King of Italy in awarding you the Bronze Medal for Military Valour for your gallant conduct and devotion to duty during operations on the 29th/30th June, 1916, and again during operations on the 3rd September 1916’. With an associated photograph and New Testament, together with a quantity of copied research including m.i.c. and war diary and gazette extracts.