Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to 2nd Corporal W. C. Gribble, 2/3rd London Field Company, Royal Engineers, who died of wounds on the Western Front, 22 August 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (2949 Sapr W. C. Gribble. 2.3/Lond: Fd: Co. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (2949 A.2. Cpl. W. C. Gribble. R.E.) with named card box for campaign awards and identity disc, BWM officially renamed, extremely fine (3) £280-£320

M.M. London Gazette 14 September 1916.

Wallace Charles Gribble resided at 69 Harold Road, Upton Park, London. He served during the Great War with the 2/3rd London Field Company, Royal Engineers on the Western Front. The latter were renumbered the 520th Field Company in 1917, and it was with them that Gribble died of wounds on the Western Front, 22 August 1918.

2nd Corporal Gribble is buried at Dive Copse British Cemetery, Sailly-le-Sec, Somme, France.