Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 March 2014

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

№ 1174

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26 March 2014

Hammer Price:
£780

A Great War M.M. and Second Award Bar group of four awarded to Serjeant T. Jones, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (40145 Cpl-A. Sjt., 64/F. Coy. R.E.); 1914-15 Star (40145 Spr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (40145 Sjt., R.E.) edge bruising, contact marks, fine (4) £550-650

M.M. London Gazette 28 January 1918.

Bar to M.M.
London Gazette 21 October 1918.

Thomas Jones came from Charlbury, Oxfordshire. As a Sapper in the Royal Engineers he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 11 May 1915. Research with the lot suggests that the M.M. was awarded for service in an attack on 12 October 1917, and the Bar for an action on 10 April 1918. Transferred to the Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 29 April 1919. With copied m.i.c., war diary and gazette extracts.