Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Driver R. H. Salverson, Royal Artillery, who was wounded in August 1917 and severely gassed during the German Spring Offensive

Military Medal, G.V.R. (L-32920 Dvr. R. H. Salverson, A/177 Bde. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (L-32920 Dvr. R. H. Salverson, R.A.), mounted as worn, very fine and better (4) £250-300

M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916.

Robert Henry Salverson enlisted in the Royal Artillery at Hammersmith, London, in July 1915, aged 19 years and first went out to France as a member of A/177 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, in February 1916. Notified of his award of the M.M. while serving at Kemmel on 14 October 1916 (his unit’s war diary refers), Salverson was wounded in the right arm on 4 August 1917 and admitted to No. 2 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station. Granted leave to the U.K. in mid-October, he afterwards rejoined his old unit in France, but was severely gassed during the German Spring Offensive in March 1918 and admitted to No. 112 Field Ambulance. He saw no further action and was demobilised in June 1919; sold with copied service record.