Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An extremely rare Great War M.M. and Two Bars group of four awarded to Temporary Sergeant E. G. Mallows, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second and Third Award Bars (16418 Sapr. E. G. Mallows, 2/Sig. Co. R.E.); 1914 Star (16418 Sapr. E. Mallows, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (16418 T. Sjt. E. G. Mallows, R.E.), good very fine (4) £3000-3600

Just 186 M.Ms with 2 Bars were awarded in the Great War, 14 of them to the Royal Engineers.

M.M. London Gazette 14 September 1916.

Bar to M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1919.

Second Bar to M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.

Edward G. Mallows, a native of Brixton, London, first went to France as a Sapper in 2nd Signal Company, R.E., in mid-August 1914 - his company would see action at Langemarck and Gheluvelt before the year’s end. Most notably in 1915 it was employed at the battle Loos and it may be on account of those operations that he won his first M.M. His Second and Third Award Bars were probably in respect of the St. Quentin Canal and Sambre operations at the end of 1918; see Howard Williamson’s Great War Medal Collectors Companion, Volume III, for further details in respect of 2nd Divisional Signal Company, R.E.