Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Captain G. A. J. M. Loughnan, Royal Army Medical Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) ‘Victory’ officially re-impressed, Papal, Bene Merenti Medal, Pius XII, gilt, in damaged Tanfani & Bertarelli, Rome case of issue, extremely fine (3) £40-60

Loughnan entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 28 June 1917. Appointed a Temporary Captain in the R.A.M.C. on 14 May 1918. Medals despatched in 1928; home address listed on m.i.c. as ‘25 Birch Terrace, Hamley, Stoke-on-Trent’. Papal medal not confirmed.