Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Corporal J. Hamilton, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (463027 L. Cpl. J. Hamilton, 50/N. Bn. D.S. Coy. R.E.); 1914-15 Star (796 2-Cpl. J. Hamilotn, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (798 2 Cpl. J. Hamilton, R.E.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (463027 2 Cpl. J. Hamilton, R.E.), mounted as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine or better (5) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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M.M. London Gazette 6 August 1918.

James Hamilton, who was from Newcastle, first entered the French theatre of war in mid-April 1915, and was awarded his M.M. for services in the 50th (Northumbrian) Division Signalling Company, R.E. Having been heavily engaged at Ypres and on the Somme, the Division suffered further heavy casualties in the Second Battle of the Aisne in May-June 1918, and it was probably for these latter operations that Hamilton was awarded his M.M.