Auction Catalogue

6 July 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 740

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£90

Pair: Private A. Berger, Honourable Artillery Company Infantry

British War and Victory Medals
(10042 Pte., H.A.C.-Inf.), good very fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (F. 37538 J. A. Newman, O.S. 3, R.N.A.S.), with lid of original box of issue, extremely fine (3) £40-50

Albert Berger originally enlisted in the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry in 1914, but was discharged as a result of bad eyesight. From November 1916 to June 1919, however, he served in the 1st Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company Infantry, and saw action at Arras, on the Somme and elsewhere, including the Canal du Nord (reverse of accompanying portrait postcard refers); sold with another 16 wartime postcards, several as sent home by the recipient to his wife and daughter between August 1917 and February 1918, and four H.A.C. photographic issues with group or individual portrait images, including two of the recipient.