Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Gunner F. E. Boulter, Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force), who was awarded an ‘Immediate’ M.S.M. and French Medal of Honour for his services on the Western Front

British War and Victory Medals (196179 Gnr. F. E. Boulter. R.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (196179 Gnr: F. E. Boulter, R.F.A.); mounted as worn together with the riband and bronze crossed swords suspension of French Medal of Honour, planchet missing; and together with a St. George’s Corps Meritorious Service Medal with Imperial Service top brooch bar, reverse inscribed, ‘Staff Sergt. F. E. Boulter. 1909.’, generally good very fine (4) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 18 January 1919:
‘For valuable services rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders.’

France, Medal of Honour, bronze, with crossed swords London Gazette 29 January 1919

Frank Ewart Boulter was born in 1892 at Eastbourne, Sussex and served during the Great War as a Gunner with the Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force). He died in 1951 at Eastbourne.