Auction Catalogue

23 September 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 767

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23 September 2011

Hammer Price:
£120

Seven: Corporal G. C. Hewitt, Royal Army Service Corps, late 2nd Battalion London Regiment

1914-15 Star (1744 Pte., 2-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1744 Pte., 2-Lond. R.); France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, these three engraved, ‘S/2066609 Cpl. G. C. Hewitt, R.A.S.C.’; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (S/2066609 Cpl., R.A.S.C.) mounted as worn, good very fine and better (7) £120-160

Private George C. Hewitt, 2nd Battalion London Regiment entered the Egypt theatre of war on 30 August 1915. His copied m.i.c. also shows service with the 12th, 10th and 8th Battalions of London Regiment.

With ‘Services Rendered 1914-1919’ Certificate awarded to men of the City of London Regiments, named to ‘Pte. G. Hewitt’; with a ‘Buckingham Palace’ presentation letter from the King to ‘Old Comrades’, dated 27 June 1937, with a fragment of the address label to, ‘Mr G. Hewitt, 50 Tonfield Rd., Sutton, Surrey’.