Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Sapper W. H. Butt, Royal Engineers, awarded the French Medaille Militaire

1914 Star, with copy clasp (27078 Sapr., R.E.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (27078 Spr., R.E.); Defence Medal, unnamed; France, Medaille Militaire, this with most of enamel missing from obverse, good fine and better (4) £100-140

Sapper William H. Butt, Royal Engineers, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 9 August 1914. Awarded the French Medaille Militaire while serving with ‘L’ Signal Company R.E. (ref. Honours and Awards of the Old Contemptibles, p. 48 but does not appear in the London Gazette). The British War Medal is missing and the clasp to 1914 Star is not confirmed. With copied m.i.c. upon which is the notation ‘M.M.’ - indicating, in this case, the French decoration.