Auction Catalogue

13 October 2021

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 161

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13 October 2021

Hammer Price:
£80

Three: Corporal W. G. Cross, Military Foot Police and City of London Police

1914-15 Star (P.1549, L-Cpl. W. G. Cross, M.F.P.); British War and Victory Medals (P-1549 Cpl. W. G. Cross. M.F.P.); Coronation 1937 (P.C. W. G. Cross) contemporarily engraved naming, mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £60-£80

William George Cross attested for the City of London Police on 1 October 1914, aged 23, and served with the Military Foot Police during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 July 1915. He was discharged from the M.F.P. on 9 August 1919, and returned to the City of London Police, being awarded the Coronation Medal in 1937. He retired to pension on 3 April 1941.