Auction Catalogue

20 September 2002

Starting at 10:00 AM

.

Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1475

.

20 September 2002

Hammer Price:
£390

A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ M.C. group of six to Captain T. Evans, Royal Army Service Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Capt.), renamed; Defence and War Medals, mounted as worn, generally good very fine (6) £320-380

M.C. London Gazette 7.2.1918.

M.I.D.
London Gazette 12.3.1918 (Mesopotamia) and 5.6.1919 (Salonika).

2nd Lieutenant Tudor Evans, Royal Army Service Corps, first entered the Mesopotamian theatre of war on 2.11.1916. Sold with some copied research details, including extracts from ‘
With the M.T. in Mesopotamia’ by Brevet Lt.-Col. F. W. Leland, in which Evans is several times listed and also the recipient’s M.I.C. which confirms his entitlement to the I.G.S.