Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. awarded to Private C. T. Ashby, 3rd Dragoon Guards

Military Medal, G.V.R. (D-14666 Pte., 3/D. Gds.) edge bruising, contact marks, fine, rare to unit £350-400

M.M. London Gazette 27 June 1918 (Whitstable).

Cyburt T. Ashby was born in Whitstable, Kent c.1889. During the Great War he served in the 3rd Dragoon Guards and Corps of Dragoons. M.M. believed to be for the attack at Beaumont, 23 March 1918. War Diary reads - ‘Enemy attacked village from the Nock and succeeded in getting a footing in the village’.

Less than 20 Great War M.M’s. awarded to the 3rd Dragoon Guards. With copied research.