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17 & 18 July 2019

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№ 117

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17 July 2019

Hammer Price:
£300

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Acting Sergeant G. W. Clarke, Royal West Kent Regiment, who was wounded by gun shot to the right leg on the Western Front in September 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R. (G-18409 Cpl. -A.Sjt.- G. W. Clarke. 6/R.W. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (G-18409 A. Sjt. G. W. Clarke. R.W. Kent R.) edge bruising, polished and worn in parts, therefore good fine (3) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.

George William Clarke, a native of Canterbury, Kent, attested for the Royal West Kent Regiment, and served with the 11th (Lewisham) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was wounded by gun shot to the right leg, and was admitted to hospital on 20 September 1917. After convalescing in England, he returned to the Western Front with the 6th Battalion, and was awarded the Military Medal.

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