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15 October 2020

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№ 79

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15 October 2020

Hammer Price:
£360

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Sergeant A. M. Ruston, 7th (Service) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, later Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. He was killed in action on the Western Front, 23 April 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (15585 Sjt: A. M. Ruston. 7/North’n R.) toned, nearly extremely fine £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

Allan Maxwell Ruston served during the Great War with the 7th (Service) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment in the French theatre of war from 31 August 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers in August 1917.

Second Lieutenant Ruston was killed in action on the Western Front, 23 April 1918, and is buried in the Mont-Bernanchon British Cemetery, Gonnheim, Pas de Calais, France.