Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. awarded to Private W. R. Sadler, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (Lrs-12676 Pte., 5/Lrs.) very fine £300-350

M.M. London Gazette 19 March 1918. ‘Lcrs./12676 Pte., Lrs. (Holbeck)’

Private William R. Sadler, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 27 August 1914. Was awarded the 1914 Star with clasp and British War and Victory Medals. Later served in the Corps of Lancers.

With copied gazette extracts and m.i.c.