Auction Catalogue

17 September 1999

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 641

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17 September 1999

Hammer Price:
£230

A Great War ‘Mesopotamia D.C.M. awarded to Private G. A. Rutherford, 2nd Royal West Kent Regiment, attached Maxim Battery

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (9218 Pte. G. A. Rutherford, 2/R.W. Kent R.) contact marks, otherwise very fine £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brett Collection of Medals to The Buffs.

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D.C.M. London Gazette 22 January 1916: ‘Pte. G. A. Rutherford, 2nd Bn. R.W. Kent R. (attd. Maxim Bty.). For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Nasiriyah (Mesopotamia) on 24th July, 1915. Although himself wounded, assisted under heavy fire a dangerously wounded officer, and had him conveyed to the dressing station.’