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24 & 25 February 2016

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Lot

№ 86

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24 February 2016

Hammer Price:
£500

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Second Lieutenant R. Greig, Middlesex Regiment, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps, a prisoner-of-war of the Germans

Military Medal, G.V.R. (A-156 Sjt. D. Greig, 8/K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (A-156 L. Cpl. R. Greig, K.R. Rif. C.) initial ‘R’ officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. R. Greig) note variation in the initials, first with edge bruising, very fine (4) £400-460

M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916.

Richard (Dick) Greig was born in Kentish Town, London. A Storekeeper by occupation, he attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in August 1914, aged 20 years, 4 months. As a Lance-Corporal in the 8th Battalion he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 19 May 1915, serving there until 5 May 1917. He was wounded on 24 August 1916 - with a shrapnel wound to the left leg and arm. When serving with the 8th Battalion he earned the Military Medal for bravery in the field. Greig was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment on 31 October 1917 and returned to France in April 1918. During the German Spring Offensive, Greig received a gunshot wound to his right side and was taken prisoner-of-war, 27 May 1918, being repatriated on 13 December 1918. Placed on the ‘exonerated officers list’. Issued with his medals, the initial on his star was amended in 1921. Greig returned all four of his medals in 1931 in protest against the Pensions Act. His protest having been made, his medals were returned to him in the following year.

With copied m.i.c., copied service papers and other research.