Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Private I. C. Ambrose, Cambridgeshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (1905 Pte. I. C. Ambrose, 1/1 Cambs. R. - T.F.); 1914-15 Star (1905 Pte. I. C. Ambrose, Camb. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1905 Pte. I. C. Ambrose, Camb. R.), good very fine and better (4) £600-800

M.M. London Gazette 17 February 1917.

Isaac Crebbe Ambrose was born at Littleport, Isle of Ely, and enlisted in the Cambridgeshire Regiment in January 1914. Allocated to 1/1 Battalion, he was embarked for France in mid-February 1915, and was awarded his M.M. for an action at St. Pierre Divion in November 1916, when the Battalion attacked down the Schwaben Redoubt under the cover of early morning mist and linked up with the 63rd Royal Naval Division. Ambrose was demobilised in February 1919; sold with research.