Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. awarded to Private I. E. Brian, 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, who died on 15 November 1918

Military Medal G.V.R. (32823 Pte. I. E. Brian. 2/Linc: R.) very fine £200-£240

M.M. London Gazette 6 August 1918.

Ivor Edgar Brian was born in Newent, Gloucestershire, in 1895 and was a resident of Kensington, London prior to the Great War. He attested for the Lincolnshire Regiment at Blandford, Dorset and served with the 7th (Service) Battalion during the Great War. He later transferred to the 2nd Battalion, with which he was serving when he was awarded the Military Medal. He died on 15 November 1918 and is buried in Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Germany. Soldiers Died in the Great War gives his place of death as France & Flanders whereas the Army Register of Soldiers’ Effects states that his place of death is officially accepted to be Frankfort. Given his burial location, the latter appears to be the more likely.

His only other entitlements were the British War and Victory Medals which were returned under King’s Regulations 1912, Paragraph 1743: medals unclaimed after 10 years to be sent to be broken up to the deputy director of stores, Royal Dockyard, Woolwich.