Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private C. P. Evans, Royal Fusiliers, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War at Vermelles on 27 September 1915

Military Medal, G.V.R. (5166 Pte... vans. 5/R...us.) attempted erasure of naming but details just about discernible, otherwise very fine £140-£180

M.M. London Gazette 30 January 1920.

Claude Puller Evans attested for the Royal Fusiliers and served with the 12th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 September 1915. He was taken Prisoner of War at Vermelles on 27 September 1915, and held at Münster Rennbahn prisoner of war camp. He was awarded the Military Medal via the Prisoner of War Gazette, his Battalion being adjusted from the 12th to the 5th.