Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Company Sergeant-Major G. Pennell, Labour Corps, late Welsh Regiment and Royal Welsh Fusiliers

1914 Star (712 Sjt. G. Pennell, 2/Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (712 W.O. Cl. II G. Pennell, Welsh R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (40801C.S. Mjr. G. Pennell, 69/Coy. Lab. C.); Militia L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (712 Sjt. G. Pennell, 3/Welch R.), unit officially corrected on the last, generally very fine (5) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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George Pennell first went to France as a Sergeant in the 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment on 20 September 1914, but subsequently transferred to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and thence the Labour Corps. It was in 69th Company of the latter corps that he was awarded the M.S.M. ‘in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders’ (London Gazette 18 January 1919, refers). He was awarded his Special Reserve L.S. & G.C. in July 1920.