Auction Catalogue

25 May 2022

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 101

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25 May 2022

Hammer Price:
£200

Three: A. Greatrex, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem

1914 Star (A. Greatrex, B.R.C.S. & O. St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (A. Greatrix [sic], B.R.C. & St. J.J.) nearly extremely fine (3) £200-£240

Albert Greatrex served with the British Red Cross Society during the Great War as a Hospital Orderly. His Medal Index Card states that he landed in France on 30 August 1914; whereas the medal roll for the British War and Victory Medals states that he served in France from 5 October 1914 to 10 November 1914, and was invalided home.